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.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan waves and then looks up before being shoved into the President's limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside the Washington Hilton hotel in this photo.

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

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.

Only five months after Ronald Reagan was elected the nation’s 40th president in a landslide victory, he was shot by a would-be assassin outside a Washington, D.C., hotel on this day 40 years ago.

ABC News' Terry Moran reflects on March 30, 1981, the day President Reagan was shot and nearly killed, by talking to those who were there and helped save his life.

WASHINGTON - On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel, along with three other people. Jackson Bain was a news anchor for WTTG-TV ...

WASHINGTON - On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel, along with three other people. Jackson Bain was a news anchor for WTTG-TV ...

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Reagan had just addressed the Building and Construction Workers Union of ...