A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside a Washington, D.C.

Jeff Taylor/AP Five members of the jury, which found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan, testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ...

WASHINGTON — Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died. He was 84. He died on June 24 at a ...

Dr. Joseph Giordano, the vascular surgeon suddenly called into duty one afternoon to save President Ronald Reagan after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died at 84. When Reagan arrived at the ...

It was March 30, 1981, and Tim McCarthy approached what he called a pretty normal day, assigned with the Secret Service detail guarding then-President Ronald Reagan. McCarthy, who now lives in Orland ...

First lady Nancy Reagan was known to regularly consult an astrologer after her husband, President Ronald Reagan, survived an assassination attempt in 1981 Joan Quigley, based in San Francisco, made ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died. He was 84. He died on June 24 at a ...