On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving the Washington Union Hotel in Washington, D.C. The 25-year-old shooter, John Hinckley Jr., approached the president as he left the hotel after speaking to a union convention. Hinckley fired 5 to 6 shots from a .22 caliber gun. The president was wounded. White House Press Secretary James Brady, a policeman, and a Secret Service agent were also injured in the shooting. Each man survived, but Brady never fully recovered.
