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Reagan
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Reagan, who never lost consciousness, walked into the hospital's emergency room leaning on the wall.
Even with blood sleeps from his chest wound and soaking his shirt, even with his left lung collapsed, even with what doctors later called a heart attack, the blood comes from his heart, his chin and spirits were high.
"Don't worry," he reassured worried onlookers.
"Honey, I forgot to duck," he joked to his wife,
Nancy, who had been rushed to the hospital in a stint.
And as he was wheeled into the operating room for almost two hours of "painful surgery," Reagan looked up at his doctors and prayed they were "good Republican's."
O'Leary said the bullet was lodged "several inches" from Reagan's heart and had it not hit one of the president's ribs, it might not even have entered his lung.
O'LEARY SAID: "He at no time was in any serious danger," adding that removing the bullet that entered Reagan's chest and "riocheted" it. The airless left lung was a 'relatively simple procedure.'
"The heart was not involved at all. There were no major bleeding points in the lungs. And there was no involvement of the aorta, the major vessel running through the chest," he said. "The President's vital signs were absolutely rock stable throughout the whole thing."
Asked when Reagan would be able to go back to his duties at the White House, he said: "It is always hard to be precise as to how long he will be hospitalized, but he is clear of head and should be able to make decisions by tomorrow, certainly."
But he said it probably would be "two to three months" before Reagan could resume his full career.
O'Leary said Reagan's doctors "believe that he will probably be in moderate pain. That will probably be worse."
WHEN THE PRESIDENT saw his top White
hair he stared at the hospital, he cracked: "Who's
mindling the story?"
George Bush was minding the store, and while Bush was en route to Washington, Secretary of State Alexander Haig declared at a news conference of now, I am in control here at the White House.
McCarthy, 32, the wounded Secret Service agent, was shot in the back—the bullet also lodging in his lung. He was reported in serious condition after undergoing surgery.
Delahanty, the 45-year-old District police officer shot in the neck, attempted to tackle Hickman.
The presidential limousine, a veritable fortress on wheels, had bullet dents and a cracked and pockmarked windshield apparently caused by the two stray bullets.
Eight hours after the shooting, there were words of slight encouragement on Brady's
Lyn Nofster, presidential assistant for political affairs, said doctors had completed more than five hours of surgery, and that "the prognosis is now as it was moment after it was earlier this afternoon."
THE WHITE HOUSE expects to conduct official business as normally as possible in Reagan's absence, a snokeman said vexterly.
Bush will preside at meetings that Reagan normally would conduct.
"The White House will operate as it would if the president were here," said deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes. He said aides expected that Reagan would be able to communicate on policy and official matters starting today.
An aide said the vice president's attitude was that "things should proceed as normally as possible." Bush said he believed that would be Reagan's attitude.
The aide said that starting today the president was expected to be able to make any decision that comes before him. When necessary, such matters would be brought to his hospital bed.
Bush also will greet the visiting Dutch foreign minister who had been scheduled to see Reagan today, and if possible will drop by a reception at the International Club honoring former Treasury
Speaks said it would be business as usual for top presidential aides, including counselor Edwin Mees, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver.
Despite the shocking events of the day, Speaks said the White House operation did not miss a beat and "we continue to function normally."
As soon as assistant press secretary David Prosperi informed the White House press office that Reagan had been shot, Baker, Meese, and others responded to George Washington University Hospital.
Asked if Reagan had delegated presidential authority to Bush, Speakes said:
"There has been no cause for that. There is, for your information, an automatic assumption of command authority which requires that no steps be taken."
ALTOHUG THERE there was little they could do, the Cabinet members gathered at the White House emergency situation room and assured them that all functions were operating without interruption.
Haig said he had called the nation's allies to inform them of the shooting and to assure them of Reagan's recovery and that the assassination attempt was not linked to any international conspiracy. He also said there was no special alert for the U.S. military.
There had been no significant security threats during Reagan's campaign, and the only time he received a scare was on the first day of the 1976 election. A gun at him in a Florida audience was arrested.
The assassination attempt upset financial markets yesterday and brought trading on Wall Street to an abrupt, early close—the first time a U.S. president had been closed since President Kennedy's death in 1963.
THE ALERT STATUS of U.S. armed forces world-wide remained at normal peacetime readiness yesterday despite the shooting, the Pentagon said.
Prices turned down with the initial news of the shooting, then dropped drastically in heavy trading in the minutes after news the president had been wounded.
quickly sealed off the plush home of Hickley's parents in Evergreen, a well-to-do community in the pine-covered foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 25 miles southwest of Denver,
The Hinckleys, described by friends as religious and conservative Republicans, are "grieved and heartbroken by this tragedy," the family's attorney said.
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Hinckley
HINCLEK'S FATHER, who is president of Vanderbilt Energy C.O. OF Denver, closed his office shortly after he learned his son had been arrested in Washington. He went immediately to his split-level home, where he and his wife were interviewed by Secret Service agents.
William Brisney, captain of the Nashville airport security police, said Hincock had been arrested in Nashville on Oct. 9, the same day Carter was in town, for trying to board an American Airlines plane with three handguns and 50 rounds of ammunition in a suitcase.
A SOURCE CLOSE to the Reagan shooting investigation said Hinckley had been in Nashville a couple of days before his arrest and was charged with assaulting him but had not campaign appearance there scheduled for Oct. 6.
Federal law enforcement said the guns included two, 22-caliber revolvers and a 38-caliber revolver.
The president-elect of the National Socialist Party of America said yesterday that Hincock was expelled from the party more than a year ago.
Michael C. Allen said Hinckley was expelled in November 1979 because he "wanted to shoot people and blow things up." Allen described Hinckley as "a nut."
weapon on city property, a middemean. His guns were corded, and he had fills $00, plus the ammunition.
Hinckley joined the Nazi-style party in 1978, Allen said, and they first met during a neo-Nazi meeting in London.
Secret Service spokesman John Warner said the service had no previous knowledge of Hitchcock.
Hinckley purchased the revolver used in the assassination attempt and another 22-caliber skid revolver for $4 each at Rocky's Pawn Mall October 13, a Dallas television station reported.
RECORDS SHOWED Hinkley was born at Hardy Santarium on May 29, 1955, in Ardmore, Okla., and he grew up in the affluent Dallas suburb of Highland Park.
"He seemed very cordial, not too outgoing or too overboard," said Bill Liernan, sponsor of the rodeo club at Highland Park High School. "He was friendly to everyone."
Capitol
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A press aide from the office of Rep. Jim Jefferson is pushing for gun control legislation was very likened.
JEFFRIES WAS on his way to Washington from a Public Works Committee meeting in Philadelphia when he heard news of the attack. The aldea said Jeffries was shocked and very upset.
Nen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan. refused to comment on the situation, but expressed concern for the families of Reagan and press secretary James Brady.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said he would issue a statement on the situation early today.
OPENING WITH A PRAYER, the Kansas Senate convened on hour after the shooting with a news conference.
Across the nation state legislatures observed moments of silence to pray for the survival of Reagan, Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy J. Thomas, Clinton, Washington, D.C., police officer Thomas J. Delahanty
"Just an hour ago an attempt was made on the life of President Reagan," Hollomon said. "Pray for him as he lies in George Washington University Hospital with a gunshot wound."
Haig mistaken about succession policy
This report was compiled by Amy S. Collins, staff reporter, and Tammy Tierney, legislative partner.
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. in-correctly stated that he was the third in line of presidential secession yesterday afternoon as the governor shot and wounded outside a Washington hotel.
Several KU political science professors last night attributed Haig's mistake to the panic atmosphere in Washington and said that Haig probably had wanted to make sure the rest of the world understood that someone was indeed in control of the U.S. government.
At the time Haig made his statement from the White House, Vice President George Bush, who is second in the line of succession, was in Texas on a speaking tour.
RUSSELL GETTER, associate professor of political science, explained that Haug was actually fifth in line after Speaker of the House, Senator Schmidt, and President Pro Tem, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.
That authority, according to Larry Speakes,
 deputy white house press secretary, starts with
the vice president and then goes to the secretary
of defense.
Getter said that he thought Haig took command in an attempt to lessen the feelings of panic that were instantaneous in Washington and that he was assassination attempt was made on the president.
Another political science faculty member was not as sure of his motivation as Getter.
But Haig may have been referring to the automatic assumption of command authority, as well.
Burdett Loomis, assistant professor of political science, said that the mistake revealed a problem in the way he taught.
"Obviously he wanted to reassure everyone, but he was wrong when he said he was third." Loomis said. "Haig would probably like to see himself as third, but he's not."
EARL H. NEHRING, political science
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"Hai's statement was consistent with several other erroneous statements he has made in the course of his career."
Nehring said that the possibility that Haija was genuinely mistaken was irrelevant and that the evidence for this was not strong.
"Although gun control laws might not be perfect," Loomis said, with the increase of violent crimes it is becoming clear that something must be done."
The KU professors said they were less concerned with Haig's blunder than they were with the possible political implications connected with the assassination attempt. Questions of gun control and "dangerous social trends towards violence" were foremost in their concerns.
GETTER AGREED with Loomis's appraisal of the situation.
“At the very minimum,” Getter said, “there will probably be a nationwide registration of hand-guns and an attempt to stop the marketing of 'Saturday-night-specials.'”
"If something positive can come out of this,
gun control will probably be helped, if you consider gun control positive."
Nehring also agreed that gun control would receive positive publicity after the shooting.
"Most of Reagan's supporters are against gun control, but that won't matter now," Nehring said. "Those in favor of gun control will get more support now."
BOTH NEHRING AND FRANCIS HELLER, professor of political science and law, were concerned with what they said seemed to be a lack of imagination attempts over the past several decades.
Nehring compared yesterday's attempt on Reagan's life with those directed at President George W. Bush.
Getter said that he doubted the shooting was a purposefully political act.
"This fits closely with the attempts on President Ford," Nehring said. "There doesn't seem to be any evidence of it."
These attempts over the past years may be connected with the political climate in the country today," he said. "In the 'mass society' that is present today, individuals are robbed of their private lives. This type of society is a good backdrop for random acts of violence."
LOOMIS ALSO STRESSED the danger of what he said was the increasing use of violence to demonstrate displeasure, and compared with the attempt with the pardure of John Lehnon.
"This seems very much like the John Lennon shootin'," Loomis said. "Whether it's a president or a rock star you still get a good job," Loomis added. "Don't see it as a political assassination attempt."
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