RIP James Brady

[Football_Bat]

Reagan's first press secretary. Wounded in the Hinckley assassination attempt.

Just announced by his family moments ago.

(Here we go ....)

 

[Mark2010]

Damn, I remember him. Cause of death?

 

[BTExpress]

Can we charge Hinckley for this one, too?

:'(

 

[Steak Snabler]

Press release, via NBC Nightly News Twitter:

He lived 33 years longer than he probably should have, and he made the most of his time. RIP.

 

[Big Circus]

Can we charge Hinckley for this one, too?

:'(

"Maybe this guy deserves another shot."

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

RIP to a great man.

 

[HanSenSE]

Can we charge Hinckley for this one, too?

:'(

"Maybe this guy deserves another shot."

Hi

Can we charge Hinckley for this one, too?

:'(

If this doesn't get him some nookie from Jodie Foster ...

 

[Boom_70]

RIP. The Brady bill was a landmark at the time for gun control
and bipartisanship. You wonder if it would have gotten passed in
today's political climate.

 

[joe]

In. Before. The. Lock.

 

[Starman]

In tandem with the Brady bill, a law should have been pushed through calling for the mandatory death penalty for anyone making a direct armed attempt on the life of the president. (You too, Squeaky!!)

It would be strangely ironic to see what would happen to such a bill today.

 

[Liut]

Remember reading Mr. Brady wasn't planning on going to the Hilton that day; Speakes was. Change of plan. Change of life. RIP.

 

[Steak Snabler]

In tandem with the Brady bill, a law should have been pushed through calling for the mandatory death penalty for anyone making a direct armed attempt on the life of the president. (You too, Squeaky!!)

Has there been one since Hinckley's attempt on Reagan? I honestly can't think of one ...

EDIT: And I'm not talking about stuff like the guy who tried to fly his plane into the White House when the president wasn't there or bombing plots that were discovered and foiled. I'm talking about someone actually taking a shot within reasonable range.

 

[daytonadan1983]

I remember:

1) Frank Reynolds losing it when he found out that they got Brady's death wrong.
2) The looks on everyone's face when Al Haig said he was in control.
3) Everyone getting on Sam Donaldson's case because they thought he asked a stupid question.

What an intense day.

 

[heyabbott]

In tandem with the Brady bill, a law should have been pushed through calling for the mandatory death penalty for anyone making a direct armed attempt on the life of the president. (You too, Squeaky!!)

Has there been one since Hinckley's attempt on Reagan? I honestly can't think of one ...

EDIT: And I'm not talking about stuff like the guy who tried to fly his plane into the White House when the president wasn't there or bombing plots that were discovered and foiled. I'm talking about someone actually taking a shot within reasonable range.

October 29, 1994: Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there (Clinton was inside.) Three tourists, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Found with a suicide note in his pocket, Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

1996: During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Manila in 1996, Clinton's motorcade was rerouted before driving over a bridge. Service officers had intercepted a message suggesting that an attack was imminent, and Lewis Merletti, the director of the Secret Service, ordered the motorcade to be re-routed. An intelligence team later discovered a bomb under the bridge. Subsequent U.S. investigation "revealed that [the plot] was masterminded by a Saudi terrorist living in Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden"

May 10, 2005: While President George W. Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade toward the podium. The grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief was wrapped tightly around it and delayed the firing pin. After escaping that day, Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005, during which he killed an Interior Ministry agent. Convicted in January 2006, he was given a life sentence.

A plot in Tennessee involved two white supremacists, Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart, who planned to drive their car toward the Democratic nominee Obama and open fire with guns. They were arrested on October 22, 2008, before taking any action. Schlesselman and Cowart pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the threat in 2010 and were sentenced to 10 and 14 years in prison, respectively.

A plot to assassinate Obama at the Alliance of Civilizations Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2009 by a man of Syrian origins carrying forged Al-Jazeera TV press credentials was uncovered. The man confessed to the Turkish security services details of his plan to kill Obama with a knife with three alleged accomplices.

April 2013 when a letter laced with ricin, a deadly poison, was sent to President Obama.

I don't remember any of these stories

 

[Steak Snabler]

I remember the guy shooting at the White House, but not sure that qualifies as an "assassination attempt" in anything other than a symbolic way.

Just because the guy thought he was shooting at Clinton doesn't mean he was.

 

[Football_Bat]

Brady's death is ruled a homicide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/us/james-brady-s-death-ruled-a-homicide-police-say.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes