By — Colleen Shalby Colleen Shalby Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judy-woodruff-remembers-day-reagan-shot Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Judy Woodruff remembers the day Reagan was shot Nation Mar 30, 2015 3:46 PM EDT Thirty-four years ago today, John Hinckley tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. At the time, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff was a White House correspondent for NBC News. She watched as President Reagan walked outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he was delivering a speech to AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades union, heard the gunshots and saw the president’s press secretary, Jim Brady, lying face down in a pool of blood. Woodruff recounted her memory of that historic event today on Twitter. [View the story “Judy Woodruff remembers the day Reagan was shot” on Storify] By — Colleen Shalby Colleen Shalby @CShalby
Thirty-four years ago today, John Hinckley tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. At the time, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff was a White House correspondent for NBC News. She watched as President Reagan walked outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he was delivering a speech to AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades union, heard the gunshots and saw the president’s press secretary, Jim Brady, lying face down in a pool of blood. Woodruff recounted her memory of that historic event today on Twitter. [View the story “Judy Woodruff remembers the day Reagan was shot” on Storify]