The security apparatus at the "Hinckley" Hilton where correspondents' dinner is held
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Timothy Reboulet never calls it the Washington Hilton. Nobody in his former line of work ever does. "Within the agency," the former Secret Service agent says, "we refer to it as the 'Hinckley' …
Timothy Reboulet never calls it the Washington Hilton. Nobody in his former line of work ever does. "Within the agency," the former Secret Service agent says, "we refer to it as the 'Hinckley' Hilton." That's because on March 30, 1981 — just steps outside the hotel — John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on then-President Ronald Reagan, wounding the commander in chief, U.S. Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty and White House press secretary James Brady. …
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