And the common picture shows me grabbing my abdomen, but that’s down where the liver was when it went through the liver. "I was hit in the chest and the bullet went into the lung, liver and diaphragm. While positioning himself to protect the president, McCarthy was hit. "I had looked back at the president, and all of a sudden, John Hinckley, who was on the left side of the rope line, pushed himself forward and fired six rounds in about 1.5 seconds," he said.
McCarthy remembers scanning the crowd standing along a rope line a few meters away from President Reagan. The rain had begun to subside when the president emerged from the hotel. So I wasn’t that anxious to get it all soaked and wet that day," he said. So I knew I was going to get wet, so this new suit was going to take a beating. It was a rainy day in Washington in the springtime and the follow-up vehicle at that time was an open Cadillac follow-up car that had a plastic roof that had windows open at all times, of course. "It was a very new suit, so it wasn’t one of those cheap suits I had. He says he was not excited about getting his new suit wet. Trainor won the toss and McCarthy was assigned to the protective detail. Would-be assassin John Hinckley is wrestled to the ground after he fired his weapon at President Ronald Reagan near a Washington hotel, D.C., March 30, 1981. "So the shift leader, rather than pointing to one or the other, since we had both been briefed, it’s probably more clichéd, flipped a coin 'because one of the two of you have to fill that position'," he said. McCarthy knew one of them would have to put that paperwork off. But they had both been briefed on protecting President Reagan that day during a visit to a Washington hotel. On the rainy morning of March 30th, 1981, Secret Service Agents Tim McCarthy and Joe Trainor had paperwork to file. Now, McCarthy and others reflect about how that day 30 years ago changed their lives and how U.S. Three others were also shot - Press Secretary James Brady, Washington Police Officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy.Įveryone, including Reagan, survived the ordeal. As he exited the Washington Hilton Hotel after giving a speech, the president was struck by a bullet fired by John Hinckley, Jr. On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan was 69 days into his presidency.
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