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Reagan at the Hilton

One agent, one limousine, one decision taken at a glance, and a film he saw at nine.

Collection: Washington: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

The Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue
The Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue · APK, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

"Rawhide is OK. We're going to Crown." That was Secret Service agent Jerry Parr on the radio. Rawhide was the president. Crown was the White House. Moments earlier, at 2:27 in the afternoon of March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan had come out of this hotel on the T Street side, and a young man in the crowd had fired six shots in less than two seconds. Parr pushed the president into the limousine.

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Visiting

Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW. T Street runs along its south side. A working hotel: the story is told from the sidewalk.

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