the attempted assassination of the president
In 1981, James Brady, who served as press secretary for President Ronald Regan, was shot in the head by John Hinkley Jr.. He shot six bullets and of those six one shot Brady and Regan. Only Regan was shot in the left lung. he recovered and returned to the White House within two weeks. But as for Brady, the most seriously injured in the attack, was assumed and pronounced dead at the hospital but instead he survived and after surgery he began an impressive recovery from his debilitating brain injury.
american-nazi club
For an antisocial pariah, Hinckley sure got around. In October 1980, he had flown to Nebraska in an attempt to contact a member of the American Nazi Party. Columnist Jack Anderson later claimed that Hinckley had ties to an American faction of the pro-Khomeini "Islamic Guerrilla Army." According to conspiracy author Barbara Honegger, a member of that group told Hinckley about his "mission" dealing with Reagan - two months before the shooting. The day after his Nazi-seeking mission, Hinckley flew to Nashville to stalk Jimmy Carter, but was arrested at the airport when authorities discovered three handguns in his suitcase. Oddly, after only five hours in custody, this unstable character - who had attempted to transport weapons across state lines and into a city soon to be visited by the president of the United States - was fined and released without further ado. Even more oddly, the authorities apparently didn't bother to examine his journal, which in Dear Diary fashion, detailed Hinckley's plans to kill Carter and the president.