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“Little more than two months after taking office, President Reagan was struck by an assassin's bullet which, but for a quarter of an inch, would have propelled Bush into the Oval Office seven years before his time. Oddly enough, the brother of the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley, had scheduled dinner with Bush's son Neil the very night Reagan was shot. Hinckley's Texas oilman father and George Bush were longtime friends. It should also be noted that Bush's name—including his then little publicized nickname ‘Poppy’ along with his address and phone number were found in the personal notebook of oil geologist George DeMohrenschildt, the last known close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald.”
Jim Marrs, “Rule by Secrecy”
There is an interesting article called "Alexander Haig and the First Edition of The Immaculate Deception" by Max Faulkner Standridge and it discusses the early parts of President Ronald Reagan's administration and the assassination attempt on him.
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On March 22, 1981, [Vice President George H.W.] Bush was named to head a new "Emergency Crisis Management Staff," in a Cabinet meeting. That role conferred new roles and powers on Bush, including "unprecedented powers for a vice-president," according to Tarpley and Chaitkin (The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush. New York: Executive Intelligence Review/Ben Franklin, 1991, pp. 2-7). That, in turn, opened the door for the creation by the vice-president of new structures in the United States Government's National Security Agency bureaucracy (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 2-9). The conferral of unprecedented powers on vice-president Bush is also confirmed by Loftus and Aarons (407-11).
Then, on March 30, 1981, shortly after these powers were conferred on Bush, President Reagan was shot. Based on my research, that shooting of Reagan seems not just a coincidence. It fit Bush's plans for power and served to make him Acting President of the United States for the duration of the Reagan Administration.
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Before we get into the assassination attempt, we need to look at the relationship between the Bush family and the Hinkley family. The father of the accused shooter, John Hinckley, was a Texas oilman who, the records show, strove mightily to get fellow Texas oilman George H.W. Bush the Republican nomination for president. Furthermore, the Bushes and the Hinckleys were frequent dinner companions. An almost bewildered John Chancellor on NBC Nightly News reported "the bizarre coincidence" that Vice-President Bush's son, Neil, and Scott Hinckley had dinner plans for March 31, 1981 - now cancelled, of course.
Here is more information on this relationship.
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Reports indicate that the Bush family strove mightily to keep this information from the American people. And some reports list this incredible "coincidence" - directly linked to the assassination attempt of President Reagan - as one of the most spiked stories of the last century.
In other words, the brother of the shooter and the son of the vice-president (and their wives) had a dinner date for the day after the shooting. But it really wasn’t such "a bizarre coincidence." Those two families were very close; but the press never focused on that critical fact as it should have. If Reagan had died, the oilmen’s interests would have been served.
The weirdest part about it was that Hinkley was able to make and receive phone calls from his hotel room but chose to walk a great distance and wait by a public payphone where he waited for contacts every day, as though it was a part of a conspiracy with co-conspirators...
A very good read on the Hinckley-Bush connections is a book that came out about 20 years ago, entitled, "The Afternoon of March 30." It was published as a novel in order to protect the author.
Neil Bush, a landman for Amoco Oil, told Denver reporters he had met Scott Hinckley at a surprise party at the Bush home January 23, 1981 [Nine weeks before Hinckley's brother John Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan - which would have elevated Bush Sr. to the presidency], and approximately three weeks after the U.S. Department of Energy had begun what was termed a "routine audit" of the books of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, the Hinckley oil company.
In an incredible coincidence, on the morning of March 30 [the day of the Reagan assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.], three representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy told Scott Hinckley, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother and Vanderbilt's vice president of operations, that auditors had uncovered evidence of pricing violations on crude oil sold by the company from 1977 through 1980.
The auditors announced that the federal government was considering a penalty of two million dollars. [This, on the same day that his brother John - the youngest son of Vice President Bush's close friend - attempted the assassination!]
Scott Hinckley reportedly requested "several hours to come up with an explanation" of the serious overcharges.
The meeting ended a little more than an hour before John Hinckly Jr. shot President Reagan. (33 Conspiracies That Turned Out To Be True, Jonathan Elinoff, 2011)
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He is more about the days immediately before Reagan's shooting!
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On January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President. Shortly thereafter, in a special meeting of the Cabinet on March 25, 198l, Vice-President George Bush was named to lead the beginnings of the new U.S. "Crisis Management Staff" that now existed as part of the National Security Council. As head of this new body, Bush could act on his own, with special "emergency powers" that required no consultation either with Reagan or the Congress (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87).
In short, after March 25, 1981, no one was in George Bush's way as far as running the United States government in a "crisis." And then, with a timing that seems a bit too convenient, on March 30, 1981, only five days later, President Reagan was shot as he walked to his limousine. According to senior White House correspondent Sarah McLendon, Reagan's Secret Service escort suddenly seemed to stand at an unusually great distance from him (Honnegar, pp. 242-4).
In the meantime, by the March 25, 1981 Cabinet meeting, Bush had seized control of the Special Situation Group, which would take control of the Executive branch in time of crisis or national emergency:
"It was a superb starting point for a coup d'etat (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 366-70).”
And the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley, had some intriguing connections to George Bush and his family (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87)
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Now for some similarities to President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) murder and how things were handled.
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Only five hours after Reagan was shot, Bush led a Cabinet meeting that decided "officially" that there was no conspiracy to shoot Reagan. However, it is clear that there was a major internal debate led primarily by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, whose subsequent behavior is best explained by the extreme nature of the "Bush initiative." It is understandable that someone would have at least wondered about this conclusion, since the official police investigation was not even started, much less completed at this time. In short, the Cabinet was clearly pressured by then-Vice-President George Bush to come to its "no conspiracy" conclusion (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87).
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Didn't the Dallas Police Department (DPD) "officially" conclude there was NO conspiracy in JFK's murder quite quickly too? I think so.
In the early afternoon of March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan finished giving a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Surrounded by his entourage and Secret Service agents, Reagan walked out to the driveway where a limousine awaited him. As in the Robert Kennedy shooting, an apparently crazed young man emerged from the crowd firing a pistol. Reagan was pushed into the limousine by a Secret Service agent, rushed to a hospital and underwent surgery to remove a single bullet which had struck him in the left rib cage and pierced his left lung. It is fortunate that the wound was not fatal.
The “lone assassin,” John Hinckley, Jr., went on to be convicted of the crime. According to a newspaper columnist, the FBI did all it could to prove that Hinckley had been the sole assassin on the scene. Some people, however, have expressed doubts about the FBI’s conclusion. In a press conference held a month after his recovery, Mr. Reagan answered questions indicating that he did not feel the impact of the bullet that struck him until he was all the way inside the limousine:
Q: What were your first thoughts when you realized you had been hit?
A: Actually, I can’t recall too clearly. I knew I’d been hurt, but I thought that I’d been hurt by the Secret Service man landing on me in the car, and it was, I must say, it was the most paralyzing pain. I’ve described it as if someone had hit you with a hammer.
But that sensation, it seemed to me, came after I was in the car, and so I thought that maybe his gun or something, when he [the Secret Service agent] had come down on me, had broken a rib.
But when I sat up on the seat and the pain wouldn’t go away, and suddenly I found that I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I’d broken a rib and punctured a lung. (The New York Times (The New York Times Company, New York), April 12, 1981, p. B12.)
In a later, interview, Mr. Reagan’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the President’s impression.
Had Mr. Reagan simply suffered a delayed reaction to a bullet fired from Hinckley’s gun, or had he actually been shot, perhaps accidentally, inside the car by a Secret Service agent, as the above testimony would suggest? According to the FBI, the bullet that wounded Mr. Reagan had ricocheted off the limousine door just as Mr. Reagan was being pushed into the vehicle. If the FBI explanation is true, why did the bullet not explode upon impact with the door since it was an exploding bullet? Perhaps the bullet was a “dud?”
It is possible that two coincidences did occur at the Reagan shooting: a dud bullet followed by a delayed pain reaction. Another explanation which does not require a coincidence is that Reagan was shot, perhaps accidentally, by the Secret Service agent inside the car: this would explain both the failure of the exploding bullet to explode (it did not hit an intervening metal door) and Mr. Reagan’s own recollection.
The FBI did not pursue the “second gun” angle in the Reagan shooting. This is troubling because the convicted assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., claimed that there was a conspiracy involved in the shooting. In its October 21, 1981 issue, the New York Times reported:
A Justice Department source late tonight confirmed a report that John W. Hinckley, Jr. had written in papers confiscated from his cell in July that he was part of a conspiracy when he shot President Reagan and three other men March 30. (Ibid., October 21, 1981, p. A22.)
Hinckley’s allegation should have set in motion an intensive conspiracy investigation. After all, John Hinckley, Jr., was not just a random individual out of the American melting pot. He was the son of a wealthy personal friend and political supporter of the then Vice-President who, of course, would have become President if Reagan had died. This is not to say that a conspiracy necessarily existed, only that such circumstances typically trigger a much more intensive investigation.
The New York Times states that the FBI seized Hinckley’s papers, followed up on the leads, and concluded that Hinckley’s conspiracy claim was untrue. The judge hearing the case ordered attorneys and witnesses not to divulge the contents of Hinckley’s papers to the public. The prison guards who had seized and read the papers gave their testimony in secret to the judge. At Hinckley’s trial, neither defense nor prosecuting attorneys ever raised the issue of a “conspiracy,” nor the second gun possibility. Instead, the entire trial centered around Mr. Hinckley’s very visible mental problems.
Where was Bush at the time of the shooting of Reagan?
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Then, in the midst of Bush's drive to seize control of the Reagan Administration, John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., carried out his attempt to assassinate President Reagan on the afternoon of March 30, 198l. As Tarpley and Chaitkin recount the events:
George Bush was visiting Texas that day... Bush had unveiled a plaque at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the old Hotel Texas, designating it as a national historic site. This was the hotel, coincidentally, in which JFK had spent the last night of his life...
It was Al Haig who called Bush and told him that the President had been shot... Back at the White House the principle Cabinet officers had assembled in the Situation Room and had been running a Crisis Management Committee during the afternoon. Haig says he was at first adamant that a conspiracy, if discovered, should be ruthlessly exposed. . .But the truth has never been established.. .
Just a few minutes after George Bush had walked into the room, on the basis of the most fragmentary early reports, not more than five hours after the attempt, before Hinckley had been properly questioned and before a full investigation had been carried out, a group of Cabinet officials, chaired by George Bush, had ruled out a priori any conspiracy (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 366-70).
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It seems the FBI, Secret Service (SS) and local police did the same bang up job for Reagan as they did for JFK!
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This is interesting in light of the behavior of the police at several levels in the days immediately before and immediately after Reagan's being shot. Police at the local, state and federal levels--many of whom were working with Bush's secret new agencies on "drug enforcement" and "anti-terrorism" activities--seemed to have engaged at times in a cover-up of Hinckley's potential threat to President Reagan.
Hinckley had been arrested by airport authorities in Nashville on October 9, 1980 for carrying three guns. Yet, he'd been quickly released. Reagan had been in Nashville on October 7, and [President Jimmy] Carter arrived there on October 9. Such a firearms charge against him in the same days that presidents were coming to town should have put him on Secret service, FBI and police watch lists of potential assassins. Yet.the FBI failed to transmit this information to the Secret Service (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 374-7).
And:
According to senior White House correspondent Sarah McLendon, Reagan's Secret Service escort suddenly seemed to stand at an unusually great distance from him (Honnegar, pp. 242-4).
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President Reagan was shot and gravely wounded allegedly by a lone gunman, John Hinckley, Jr. Though Reagan recovered fully, his press secretary, Jim Brady, who was wounded in the head, and remained partially paralyzed the rest of his life. Hinckley was committed to a mental institution and has been freed on unrestricted visits to his parent's home. Everyone alive will remember that horrific day when it seemed we were going to lose another beloved President. As the shock wave of the event raced across the country the then Vice-President, George Bush reassured the nation that no conspiracy was involved, that only a lone crazed gunmen was involved, and all would be well.
What was incredible however was that Vice-President Bush made this announcement before any federal agency had investigated the attempt on the President's life. Now it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the person most likely to gain from the death of a President would be the Vice-President.
But was there a connection between the attempted assassin and the Vice-President? Apparently, there was!
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Bush Son Had Dinner Plans with Hinckley Brother Before Shooting
The Associated Press Domestic News
March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle HOUSTON
The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today. Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons. The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment.
Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980. On Monday, Neil Bush said he did not know if he had ever met 25-year-old John Hinckley.
"From what I know and I've heard, they (the Hinckleys) are a very nice family and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign."
"I have no idea," he said. "I don't recognize any pictures of him. I just wish I could see a better picture of him."
Sharon Bush, Neil's wife, said Scott Hinckley was coming to their house as a date of a girlfriend of hers. "I don't even know the brother. From what I know, and I've heard, they (the Hinckleys) are a very nice family and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign. I understand he was just the renegade brother in the family. They must feel awful," she said.
The dinner was canceled, she added.
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“Little more than two months after taking office, President Reagan was struck by an assassin's bullet which, but for a quarter of an inch, would have propelled Bush into the Oval Office seven years before his time. Oddly enough, the brother of the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley, had scheduled dinner with Bush's son Neil the very night Reagan was shot. Hinckley's Texas oilman father and George Bush were longtime friends. It should also be noted that Bush's name—including his then little publicized nickname ‘Poppy’ along with his address and phone number were found in the personal notebook of oil geologist George DeMohrenschildt, the last known close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald.”
Jim Marrs, “Rule by Secrecy”
There is an interesting article called "Alexander Haig and the First Edition of The Immaculate Deception" by Max Faulkner Standridge and it discusses the early parts of President Ronald Reagan's administration and the assassination attempt on him.
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On March 22, 1981, [Vice President George H.W.] Bush was named to head a new "Emergency Crisis Management Staff," in a Cabinet meeting. That role conferred new roles and powers on Bush, including "unprecedented powers for a vice-president," according to Tarpley and Chaitkin (The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush. New York: Executive Intelligence Review/Ben Franklin, 1991, pp. 2-7). That, in turn, opened the door for the creation by the vice-president of new structures in the United States Government's National Security Agency bureaucracy (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 2-9). The conferral of unprecedented powers on vice-president Bush is also confirmed by Loftus and Aarons (407-11).
Then, on March 30, 1981, shortly after these powers were conferred on Bush, President Reagan was shot. Based on my research, that shooting of Reagan seems not just a coincidence. It fit Bush's plans for power and served to make him Acting President of the United States for the duration of the Reagan Administration.
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Before we get into the assassination attempt, we need to look at the relationship between the Bush family and the Hinkley family. The father of the accused shooter, John Hinckley, was a Texas oilman who, the records show, strove mightily to get fellow Texas oilman George H.W. Bush the Republican nomination for president. Furthermore, the Bushes and the Hinckleys were frequent dinner companions. An almost bewildered John Chancellor on NBC Nightly News reported "the bizarre coincidence" that Vice-President Bush's son, Neil, and Scott Hinckley had dinner plans for March 31, 1981 - now cancelled, of course.
Here is more information on this relationship.
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Reports indicate that the Bush family strove mightily to keep this information from the American people. And some reports list this incredible "coincidence" - directly linked to the assassination attempt of President Reagan - as one of the most spiked stories of the last century.
In other words, the brother of the shooter and the son of the vice-president (and their wives) had a dinner date for the day after the shooting. But it really wasn’t such "a bizarre coincidence." Those two families were very close; but the press never focused on that critical fact as it should have. If Reagan had died, the oilmen’s interests would have been served.
The weirdest part about it was that Hinkley was able to make and receive phone calls from his hotel room but chose to walk a great distance and wait by a public payphone where he waited for contacts every day, as though it was a part of a conspiracy with co-conspirators...
A very good read on the Hinckley-Bush connections is a book that came out about 20 years ago, entitled, "The Afternoon of March 30." It was published as a novel in order to protect the author.
Neil Bush, a landman for Amoco Oil, told Denver reporters he had met Scott Hinckley at a surprise party at the Bush home January 23, 1981 [Nine weeks before Hinckley's brother John Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan - which would have elevated Bush Sr. to the presidency], and approximately three weeks after the U.S. Department of Energy had begun what was termed a "routine audit" of the books of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, the Hinckley oil company.
In an incredible coincidence, on the morning of March 30 [the day of the Reagan assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.], three representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy told Scott Hinckley, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother and Vanderbilt's vice president of operations, that auditors had uncovered evidence of pricing violations on crude oil sold by the company from 1977 through 1980.
The auditors announced that the federal government was considering a penalty of two million dollars. [This, on the same day that his brother John - the youngest son of Vice President Bush's close friend - attempted the assassination!]
Scott Hinckley reportedly requested "several hours to come up with an explanation" of the serious overcharges.
The meeting ended a little more than an hour before John Hinckly Jr. shot President Reagan. (33 Conspiracies That Turned Out To Be True, Jonathan Elinoff, 2011)
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He is more about the days immediately before Reagan's shooting!
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On January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President. Shortly thereafter, in a special meeting of the Cabinet on March 25, 198l, Vice-President George Bush was named to lead the beginnings of the new U.S. "Crisis Management Staff" that now existed as part of the National Security Council. As head of this new body, Bush could act on his own, with special "emergency powers" that required no consultation either with Reagan or the Congress (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87).
In short, after March 25, 1981, no one was in George Bush's way as far as running the United States government in a "crisis." And then, with a timing that seems a bit too convenient, on March 30, 1981, only five days later, President Reagan was shot as he walked to his limousine. According to senior White House correspondent Sarah McLendon, Reagan's Secret Service escort suddenly seemed to stand at an unusually great distance from him (Honnegar, pp. 242-4).
In the meantime, by the March 25, 1981 Cabinet meeting, Bush had seized control of the Special Situation Group, which would take control of the Executive branch in time of crisis or national emergency:
"It was a superb starting point for a coup d'etat (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 366-70).”
And the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley, had some intriguing connections to George Bush and his family (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87)
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Now for some similarities to President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) murder and how things were handled.
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Only five hours after Reagan was shot, Bush led a Cabinet meeting that decided "officially" that there was no conspiracy to shoot Reagan. However, it is clear that there was a major internal debate led primarily by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, whose subsequent behavior is best explained by the extreme nature of the "Bush initiative." It is understandable that someone would have at least wondered about this conclusion, since the official police investigation was not even started, much less completed at this time. In short, the Cabinet was clearly pressured by then-Vice-President George Bush to come to its "no conspiracy" conclusion (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 379-87).
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Didn't the Dallas Police Department (DPD) "officially" conclude there was NO conspiracy in JFK's murder quite quickly too? I think so.
In the early afternoon of March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan finished giving a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Surrounded by his entourage and Secret Service agents, Reagan walked out to the driveway where a limousine awaited him. As in the Robert Kennedy shooting, an apparently crazed young man emerged from the crowd firing a pistol. Reagan was pushed into the limousine by a Secret Service agent, rushed to a hospital and underwent surgery to remove a single bullet which had struck him in the left rib cage and pierced his left lung. It is fortunate that the wound was not fatal.
The “lone assassin,” John Hinckley, Jr., went on to be convicted of the crime. According to a newspaper columnist, the FBI did all it could to prove that Hinckley had been the sole assassin on the scene. Some people, however, have expressed doubts about the FBI’s conclusion. In a press conference held a month after his recovery, Mr. Reagan answered questions indicating that he did not feel the impact of the bullet that struck him until he was all the way inside the limousine:
Q: What were your first thoughts when you realized you had been hit?
A: Actually, I can’t recall too clearly. I knew I’d been hurt, but I thought that I’d been hurt by the Secret Service man landing on me in the car, and it was, I must say, it was the most paralyzing pain. I’ve described it as if someone had hit you with a hammer.
But that sensation, it seemed to me, came after I was in the car, and so I thought that maybe his gun or something, when he [the Secret Service agent] had come down on me, had broken a rib.
But when I sat up on the seat and the pain wouldn’t go away, and suddenly I found that I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I’d broken a rib and punctured a lung. (The New York Times (The New York Times Company, New York), April 12, 1981, p. B12.)
In a later, interview, Mr. Reagan’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the President’s impression.
Had Mr. Reagan simply suffered a delayed reaction to a bullet fired from Hinckley’s gun, or had he actually been shot, perhaps accidentally, inside the car by a Secret Service agent, as the above testimony would suggest? According to the FBI, the bullet that wounded Mr. Reagan had ricocheted off the limousine door just as Mr. Reagan was being pushed into the vehicle. If the FBI explanation is true, why did the bullet not explode upon impact with the door since it was an exploding bullet? Perhaps the bullet was a “dud?”
It is possible that two coincidences did occur at the Reagan shooting: a dud bullet followed by a delayed pain reaction. Another explanation which does not require a coincidence is that Reagan was shot, perhaps accidentally, by the Secret Service agent inside the car: this would explain both the failure of the exploding bullet to explode (it did not hit an intervening metal door) and Mr. Reagan’s own recollection.
The FBI did not pursue the “second gun” angle in the Reagan shooting. This is troubling because the convicted assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., claimed that there was a conspiracy involved in the shooting. In its October 21, 1981 issue, the New York Times reported:
A Justice Department source late tonight confirmed a report that John W. Hinckley, Jr. had written in papers confiscated from his cell in July that he was part of a conspiracy when he shot President Reagan and three other men March 30. (Ibid., October 21, 1981, p. A22.)
Hinckley’s allegation should have set in motion an intensive conspiracy investigation. After all, John Hinckley, Jr., was not just a random individual out of the American melting pot. He was the son of a wealthy personal friend and political supporter of the then Vice-President who, of course, would have become President if Reagan had died. This is not to say that a conspiracy necessarily existed, only that such circumstances typically trigger a much more intensive investigation.
The New York Times states that the FBI seized Hinckley’s papers, followed up on the leads, and concluded that Hinckley’s conspiracy claim was untrue. The judge hearing the case ordered attorneys and witnesses not to divulge the contents of Hinckley’s papers to the public. The prison guards who had seized and read the papers gave their testimony in secret to the judge. At Hinckley’s trial, neither defense nor prosecuting attorneys ever raised the issue of a “conspiracy,” nor the second gun possibility. Instead, the entire trial centered around Mr. Hinckley’s very visible mental problems.
Where was Bush at the time of the shooting of Reagan?
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Then, in the midst of Bush's drive to seize control of the Reagan Administration, John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., carried out his attempt to assassinate President Reagan on the afternoon of March 30, 198l. As Tarpley and Chaitkin recount the events:
George Bush was visiting Texas that day... Bush had unveiled a plaque at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the old Hotel Texas, designating it as a national historic site. This was the hotel, coincidentally, in which JFK had spent the last night of his life...
It was Al Haig who called Bush and told him that the President had been shot... Back at the White House the principle Cabinet officers had assembled in the Situation Room and had been running a Crisis Management Committee during the afternoon. Haig says he was at first adamant that a conspiracy, if discovered, should be ruthlessly exposed. . .But the truth has never been established.. .
Just a few minutes after George Bush had walked into the room, on the basis of the most fragmentary early reports, not more than five hours after the attempt, before Hinckley had been properly questioned and before a full investigation had been carried out, a group of Cabinet officials, chaired by George Bush, had ruled out a priori any conspiracy (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 366-70).
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It seems the FBI, Secret Service (SS) and local police did the same bang up job for Reagan as they did for JFK!
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This is interesting in light of the behavior of the police at several levels in the days immediately before and immediately after Reagan's being shot. Police at the local, state and federal levels--many of whom were working with Bush's secret new agencies on "drug enforcement" and "anti-terrorism" activities--seemed to have engaged at times in a cover-up of Hinckley's potential threat to President Reagan.
Hinckley had been arrested by airport authorities in Nashville on October 9, 1980 for carrying three guns. Yet, he'd been quickly released. Reagan had been in Nashville on October 7, and [President Jimmy] Carter arrived there on October 9. Such a firearms charge against him in the same days that presidents were coming to town should have put him on Secret service, FBI and police watch lists of potential assassins. Yet.the FBI failed to transmit this information to the Secret Service (Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 374-7).
And:
According to senior White House correspondent Sarah McLendon, Reagan's Secret Service escort suddenly seemed to stand at an unusually great distance from him (Honnegar, pp. 242-4).
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President Reagan was shot and gravely wounded allegedly by a lone gunman, John Hinckley, Jr. Though Reagan recovered fully, his press secretary, Jim Brady, who was wounded in the head, and remained partially paralyzed the rest of his life. Hinckley was committed to a mental institution and has been freed on unrestricted visits to his parent's home. Everyone alive will remember that horrific day when it seemed we were going to lose another beloved President. As the shock wave of the event raced across the country the then Vice-President, George Bush reassured the nation that no conspiracy was involved, that only a lone crazed gunmen was involved, and all would be well.
What was incredible however was that Vice-President Bush made this announcement before any federal agency had investigated the attempt on the President's life. Now it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the person most likely to gain from the death of a President would be the Vice-President.
But was there a connection between the attempted assassin and the Vice-President? Apparently, there was!
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Bush Son Had Dinner Plans with Hinckley Brother Before Shooting
The Associated Press Domestic News
March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle HOUSTON
The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today. Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons. The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment.
Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980. On Monday, Neil Bush said he did not know if he had ever met 25-year-old John Hinckley.
"From what I know and I've heard, they (the Hinckleys) are a very nice family and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign."
"I have no idea," he said. "I don't recognize any pictures of him. I just wish I could see a better picture of him."
Sharon Bush, Neil's wife, said Scott Hinckley was coming to their house as a date of a girlfriend of hers. "I don't even know the brother. From what I know, and I've heard, they (the Hinckleys) are a very nice family and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign. I understand he was just the renegade brother in the family. They must feel awful," she said.
The dinner was canceled, she added.
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