NBC News, Special Report, Reagan Assassination Attempt (3/30/81)

[alp227]

Run time: 09:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgORfFt_9w   Posted on YouTube: March 24, 2009 By YouTube Member: haiker16 Views on YouTube: 54632   Posted on DU: April 02, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 414

 
MSNBC.com also posted the NBC Nightly News that preceded this special report here and here. At the time, John Chancellor and Roger Mudd anchored the program. Shelly Fielman, the cameraman who recorded the shooting on video for NBC, also commented about the shooting this week. Also, current Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace was the White House correspondent for NBC. Back then he could sure talk FAST!

The 40th president's liberal son Ron Reagan (not a junior) has a new biography about Ronald, My Father at 100, available wherever you can find books. I'm reading it right now and am enjoying it. (Yes, Ron Reagan is a liberal...in the book he described one incident in which he challenged his father's view of the Native Americans and has hosted a show on the defunct Air America radio network.)

[populistdriven]

1. saw it live before they pulled the footage of brady getting hit

poor fella

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I remember this, too. ABC News announced that Brady had died.

I had just started working and when I walked in the head of the company asked me if Brady had died and I told him that I'd just heard it on the news. :hide:

Very scary times. I was never a fan of Reagan, but this shook me up as much as the rest of the country. :(