Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan's life after an assassination ...

Without Dr. Giordano’s work to establish the Level I trauma center where he later helped remove the bullet from the president ...

He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond ...

Ronald Reagan won many Americans over after being shot. AP “Reagan was shot. He survived and did well. He won re-election in a landslide,” he said.

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination ...

A bullet that grazed his ear and his extraordinary instant response became a defining moment, and for his supporters the making of a legend.

John Hinckley, the man who shot and nearly killed President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has asked the world to choose peace over violence after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

FILE – President Ronald Reagan waves and then looks up before being shoved into the President’s limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel, March 30, 1981.

WASHINGTON – When Ronald Reagan was shot just a few blocks from where I was working in Dupont Circle, political assassinations and attempted assassinations were nothing new in American culture.

The last time an American president was injured in an assassination attempt was 43 years ago, when 25-year-old John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan in Washington.