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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan
was shot in the chest Monday by a .gunman who
also shot and seriously wounded Reagan's press
secretary, James S. Brady, . . ,
Reagan "galloped through surgery" according
to doctors who said the president would be ready
to make White House decisions today.
But Brady was said to be "fighting for his life"
after a bullet entered his brain.
Dr. Dennis O'Leary said "a really mangled
bullet" was removed from Reagan's left lung. He
said the president's condition was stable, the
prognosis excellent.
Two law officers also were wounded in the
mid-afterrioon shooting outside a Washington
hotel where Reagan had just addressed a union
convention. They were
reported in serious con
dition, but apparently not I
in danger. ; J
A jouthful, sandy-haired
gunman from suburban J
Denver was put in hand- "" .
cuffs and arrested moments I
after he leveled his pistol
at the president and fired '
from near point-blank
range. ; '
There was no known
motive for the attack.
One eyewitness said the assailant, standing 10
feet from the president, "just opened up and con
tinued squeezing the trigger."
Hours later Reagan was pronounced in good
and stable condition after surgery.
At 2:25 p.m. six shots were fired, one hitting
Reagan in the left chest, others hitting Brady, a
Secret Service agent and a policeman. Secret Ser
vice agents and police seized John Warnock
Hinckley , Jr., 25 of Evergreen, Colorado.
Hinckley was booked on charges of attempted
assassination of a president and of assault with
intent to kill a police officer. He was in FBI cus
tody Monday night.
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The gunman leveled his pistol at Reagan from
amid a crowd of reporters and bystanders as the
president left the hotel after addressing the AFL
ClO Building Trades Council.
The shots also hit Secret Service agent Timothy
J. McCarthy, 31, and policeman Thomas Dela
hanty, 45. A Secret Service spokesman said
McCarthy was in "stable condition on the plus
side." He was shot in the chest. Delahanty was
wounded at the base of his neck. He was reported
in serious condition.
At the time, Vice President George Bush was
flying to Austin, Texas. His plane turned back,
landing outside Washington at dusk. Bush was
flown to the city aboard a helicopter under extra
ordinary security precautions.
Key Cabinet members and Reagan aides con
ferred at the White House. With Bush in flight
and Reagan in the hospital, Secretary' of State
Alexander M. Haig Jr. told reporters, "As of
now I am in control here in the White House pon
dering the return of the vice president."
At first, the White House said Reagan had not
been hit, and that he had gone to the hospital
because of Brady's injury But about an hour
after the shooting, aide Lyn Nofziger said Reagan
had indeed suffered a chest wound.
Nofziger said Monday night that the first report
was erroneous because Reagan's own aides didn't
realize he had been wounded. , .
The shooting was the ninth attempt to assas
sinate an American President while, in office.
Four presidents were killed. The attempted assas
sination of a president is a federal crime carrying
a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
. "I can reassure this nation and a watching
world that the American government is function
ing fully, ..." Bush said at the White House Mon
day night. "We've had full and complete com
munication throughout the day.','
O'Leary said Reagan was "clear of head" after
the operation.
"We do not believe there is any permanent in
jury," he said. O'Leary served as spokesman for
two surgeons who' operated on Reagan at George
Washington University Hospital. Doctors made a
6-inch incision to remove the bullet that had pen
etrated about three inches into his left lung, miss
ing his heart by several inches.
Reagan's lung collapsed, and the surgeons in
serted two chest tubes to restore it.
' Reagan was given blood transfusions, about
2Vi quarts in all, to replace the blood he lost.
The wounded president walked into the hospital,
"alert and awake" if a bit lightheaded, O'Leary
said. At 70, the doctor said Reagan "is physio-,
logically very young. He was never in any serious
danger."
But Brady was critically wounded. "His condi
tion is critical," the doctor said. He was shot in
, the side of the forehead, the bullet passing through
his brain. "He obviously has significant brain
. injury and he is in critical condition," O'Leary
reported. .. " '
He would not speculate on Brady's chances of
recovery, but said that it is likely Bradyi 40, will
suffer permanent brain damage if he survives.
Little was known about the man charged with
the Reagan attempt.' Hinckley is a son of John W.
Henckley Sr., president of an oil and gas explora
tion company in Denver. A former high school
classmate said Hinckley was unexceptional and
"just sort of blended into the crowd."
Hinckley was arrested Oct. 9 at the Nashville
airport for carrying handguns. The FBI said he
was carrying three weapons that day while
then-President Jimmy Carter was making a cam
paign appearance in the city.
O'Leary and Nofziger both said Reagan would
be able to handle the decision-making duties of
his job Tuesday.
Nofziger said there was no consideration of
turning the duties of the office over to Bush
under the constitutional provision for presidential
disability.
"The president will be fully capable of making
decisions tomorrow, according to the doctors,"
Nofziger said. "In the meantime, the business of
government is going on normally and we expect it
will continue to."
Dr. Benjamin Aaron and Dr. Joseph Giordano,
both of the George Washington University School
of Medicine, operated on Reagan.
O'Leary said Reagan might be hospitalized for
as long as two weeks, but called that only a guess.
While Reagan was in the operating room, his
aides made a point of emphasizing the banter
with which he went to surgery.
Reagan winked, Nofziger said, then saw three
top staff members and said, "Who's minding the
store?"
Upon emerging from surgery, Reagan said,
"All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia," refering
to the NCAA championship final.
The Senate halted legislative business Monday
as shocked legislators received news that Reagan
had been wounded.
Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.L, said the "general
atmosphere of all of us is one of shock and horror."
He said news of the 1963 assassination of Presi
dent John F. Kennedy seemed "like only a month"
ago'
Shortly after news organizations replied the
president had been wounded, Senate iajority
Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. recessed the Senate,
citing the gravity of the situation.
Senators were debating a legislative blueprint
for achieving budget reductions recommended by
the president when the news came.
Baker told a hushed chamber that Reagan had
been wounded. Later, he said: "We are in recess
subject to the call of the chair and I am going to
leave us there until I find out how the president is,
which probably means until after surgery. Assum
ing he is well, and I assume he will be well, then I
will adjourn us or recess us until tomorrow. Easi
ness is done for the day."
North Carolinians reacted with mixed shock,
anger and prayers Monday.
"The attempt on the life of the President of the
United States has shocked all North Carolinians,"
said Gov. Jim Hunt en route to the NCAA basket
ball championship game in Philadelphia. "Our
prayers are with him as well as with the other
persons who were injured."
Rep. L.H. Fountain, D-N.C, said the shooting
showed the nation must take greater precautions
to protect the president, including tightening access
to make sure "the criminals running around in this
country, whether mentally unbalanced or mali
ciously inclined, do not have close access to the
president.
"We've been a little too
easy on this," Fountain
said.
Foreign leaders, stun
ned by the latest assassi
nation attempt against
.an American president,
sent messages to the woun
ded president expressing
'their dismjsy and wishing
hini a swift recovery.
British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher sent a
personal message to the
to the president saying she was "praying" he was
not seriously wounded.
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In Paris, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing
dispatched a telegram that said: "Learning ... you
have just been a victim, I wish to express to you
my very warmest and friendliest wishes for your
complete recovery and the pursuit of your activity
in the leadership of the United States."
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From Staff Reports
Although disappointment was the dominant mood on Franklin
Street Monday night, Tar Heel fans did not pass up the chance to
party.
Rowdy students headed downtown shortly after the game,
demonstrating that Carolina students are spirited even In defeat.
Crowds painted blue hearts on the street that read "Heels are still
tt 1 in our hearts" and "We love you AT as beer flowed down
from the trees.
Computer cards sailed from the top floors of Morrison
Dormitory and students, faculty and alumni packed the streets
blocked off from the Morchcad Planetarium to Granville Towers,
on Franklin Street and from the Carolina Inn to the police station
on Columbia Street.
"We cheered hard for our team. We love 'cm and we're still
proud of them. We may be number two in the country but they're
still number one in our hearts," said Vicky Pace, a varsity
cheerleader who stayed behind the squad to cheer the team on
from Chapel Hill'.
Disc jockeys blasted James Taylor's inspiring "Carolina In My
Mind" over and over from speakers mounted on the roof of
Jaspar's, which led to dancing in the street.
"The music is getting everyone n a party mood. It's a good
excuse for everyone to start drinking. I give them a half hour, and
they'll forget thai the Tar Heels lost," patrolman Wayne
Hoffman said.
Many students agreed that making the tournament finals was
more than enough reason to celebrate. "I came up here because
of Dean Smith and all the other players. Because even though we
lost, vse're in second place. It's a lifetime experience."
"1 just can't believe we rot to the Final Four," one said.
And another: "We've had a buzz going all day; no sense
wasting it now."
Cameramen suspected that many people downtown were most
interested In making an appearance on national television.
"I've just jot to pet on TV," one man repeated frantically.
One female camera operator had to be protected by the police
from over enthusiastic camera ho?.s. Apparently, several camera
happy males decided that harassins the reporter was the best way
to j.ct themselves broadcast from coast to coast.
Unruly Urn used the downtown party as an outlet for their
an;icr. "I'm oa; to Franklin Street, then I'm heading North.
I'm fcins to Indiana. I wanna break something; 1 wanna break a
IKxv.icr," one student saiJ shortly after the del eat.
Students threw shoes from the windows of O'J tUst and an
under nJuate in fior.t of Manhunt Dormitory veiled, "Ixx's hear
a Ltsle violence."
liut poliee, although err15?! cpcvied no major trouble
tfo:?i the pafiiers. "We may c here Jail nirht," one estimated
ihout t.n hour afscr the ranse ended.
Still, many ardent Tar Heel fan came to VnrXln Street to
I", hi I lean of at lea t diown them in a beef or two. "It was a
Ct -.-rave, The Tar Hcxlv shmdj hue won," one disced
h'r.t '...ii.
lh;i octi the nu'.i d,--tiauvJ4 to joui the mo-.t tften
hcaid ihcer; "Wait t.l ncvl vcuj!"
Season ends
At' right, Indiana's Isiah Thomas
(11) starts to fall with the ball as
North Carolina's Sam Perkins tries
to block his shot in the NCAA
finals in Philadelphia Monday
night. The Hoosiers defeated the
Heels 63-50, Thomas' 23 points
leading the way. Below, Tar Heel
fans gather downtown after the
game to relieve their sorrows after
the team's defeat. In this contest,
Budweiser leads the packs This
year was the sixth appearance of
a Carolina team in the Final Four
since Dean Smith has been coach,
the third time in the chanrfpionship
game.
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By DAVID POOLE
Staff Wrttw
PHILADELPHIA North Carolina stood at the threshold
of a NCAA basketball championship again Monday night, but
once again it played bridesmaid as another team shut the door
in its face.
This time Bobby Knight's Indiana University Hoosiers took
the NCAA championship away from Dean Smith and the Tar
Heels with a 63-50 victory over North Carolina at the Spectrum.
The story of the game was the Indiana defense, a f warming
rnan-to-man which prevented Carolina from settling into any
kind of offensive flow, especially in the second half.
The team is expected to arrive ct Raleigh-Durham airport at
4:30 p.m. and at Carmichacl Auditorium ct 5 p.m. today,
according to unconfirmed reports.
Meanwhile, Indiana's A 11-America point guard Isbh Thomas
was picking apart the Tar I fed defense en route to winning the
award as the Final Four's most outstanding player.
The attempted assassinalion of President Ronald Reian had
raised some doubts about whether the fcame would be played al
all, but a decision was made early in the evening to proceed as
planned. .
In addition to Indiana's second half defense, the game turned
on Indiana rebounding and the play of Thomas, who had 19 of
his gatne-hlgh 23 points as Indiana oufsccrcd Carolina 36-24 in
the second half.
'Thomas' second-half performance was just too much,"
Smith said. "Indiana's defense was very active. I don't think we
played as well as we could, but I'm very proud of this year's
team. Indiana was better torJjht."
"I never thought that we could get here Knight said. "We
hung in there like we have a3 yrar. I tcU them at the half that
they had rut themselves in a position to win the ball tame, and
they went cat there in the first few minute of the second half juJ
way they cd Saturday.
The Hociers seieri control of the tarne early Li the second
half. Thomas convened two steals into baiitis al the Induna
end h the first two minutes cf the half.
The Hocv.zu built their lead to 35-30 before Carolina ieel a
tl-ne-out with 15:32 kft. In eidllioa to a breakaway Uy-v? tt the
outset of the half, Thomas hit two mare jtimpen u.a Uf-xt the
t:me-out and heu! his ttzm tdr.z.
Thomas continued to run the show, and the I locrJm built cm
the tcsd steadily a$ the second half rotrnseJ. I l;is time
a!.-no4 rercrptltly sentiri the opporty i0 ls&s Rotbnal
thaeKploRsh;? tile ihe ore another Indiana team wtwi in the
same bulLdlnj ti 177$. Ind;ani became ratlrr.! on offense,
wc,'kl"i a'nit the UNC jone for eutrnt tKcts.
As linrceml la LoulUina e alist th-e IlocJers in the
Sturdy. the Tit I tvth mat al-noa ha!:ed on offense
Ttit IrJana lead vr to 1 1 and $utd mzr that fture at the
clock wound down. The HrcU ra4 it tln to seven once, but
they thr many threes they hid to thee into the magli.
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