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This FBI case file concerns John Warnock Hinckley Jr.'s March 30, 1981 attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. The records show the FBI's Washington Field Office working with the Secret Service, Metropolitan Police Department, and United States Attorney's Office after Reagan, Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, and Police Officer Thomas Delahanty were wounded. The OCR includes a narrative of the offense, subject descriptive data, prosecutive-action notes, and a table of contents for investigative sections on the crime scene, hospitals, the Park Central Hotel, witness interviews, laboratory reports, Hinckley's travel, associates, finances, family background, medical history, weapons, and arrest. It also includes details on the search warrant for Hinckley's Room 312 at the Park Central Hotel, the recovery of a .22 caliber revolver and bullet evidence, and summaries of eyewitness accounts from civilians, media, Secret Service personnel, police, and people watching from nearby buildings.

FBI file number: WFO 175-311 | Documents span: 1981 | Released in 4 parts
Names in this file: Ronald Reagan, John Warnock Hinckley Jr., James Brady, Timothy McCarthy, Thomas Delahanty, Charles P. C. Ruff, Roger Adelman, Donald Campbell, B. Lawrence Barcella, Arthur L. Burnett, Vincent Fuller, Edward Wilhite
Subjects: assassination attempt, presidential security, crime scene investigation, witness interviews, firearms evidence, search warrants