Assassination Week #3: How The Reagan Assassination Attempt Made Everything Worse

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09/21/22 • 36 min

The gang sits down to talk about John Hinckley Jr., mental health, and what happens when you try and fail to kill the President.

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The gang sits down to talk about John Hinckley Jr., mental health, and what happens when you try and fail to kill the President.

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It Could Happen Here - Assassination Week #3: How The Reagan Assassination Attempt Made Everything Worse

Transcript

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This is assassination week. Oh God, my left arm, pet, it hurts so much. Land doesn't feel so good. Ronald Wilson Reagan. Six, six, six, six letters in any way, whatever. Um, I'm Robert Evans. This is it could happen here, a podcast about assassinating world leaders. Um, that's why it's called it could happen here, and today we're talking about a time where it did, when John Hinckley Jr shot Ronald Wilson Reagan. Um, with me today James Stout, Gar