Photos: 35 years ago, President Reagan shot

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On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty.

FILE - Then-Press Secretary James Brady lies on the ground, left, after being wounded during the assassination attempt on then President Reagan in Washington on March 30, 1981. The Supreme Court Friday, June 27, 1997 struck down a key part of the Brady gun-control law- the requirement that local police check the backgrounds of prospective gun buyers. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, U.S. President Ronald Reagan winces and raises his left arm as he was shot by an assailant as he left a Washington hotel after making a speech to a labor group. After he was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, Reagan described the experience simply in one of his presidential diaries: "Getting shot hurts." That excerpt and many others form a portrait of an uncomplicated and amiable man who, despite occasional periods of worry and bursts of temper, took his eight years in the White House pretty much in stride. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, John Hinckley is wrestled to the ground after he slipped in behind cameramen, fired his weapon between them, hitting President Ronald Reagan, Officer Delahanty, and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy. Reagan died at the age of 93, Saturday June 5, 2004 at his home in Bel Air in Southern California. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, White House press secretary James Brady lies wounded on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel after being shot during an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Monday, March 30, 1981. In the background secret service agents and police wrestle the alleged assailant to the ground. A newly released Secret Service audiotape from the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan sheds lights on the chaotic aftermath when neither the president nor his agents realized he'd been shot. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

FILE - In this March 30, 1981 file photo, Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, foreground, Washington police officer, Thomas K. Delehanty, center, and presidential Press Secretary, James Brady, background, lie wounded on a street outside a Washington hotel after shots were fired at U.S. President Reagan on March 30, 1981. Twenty years later McCarthy, who threw himself into the line of fire taking a bullet intended for President Reagan, is now a police chief in a Chicago suburb. His heroism that day underpinned a campaign for statewide political office a few years ago that did not work out. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds/File)

FILE - Police officers and secret service agents seize John Hinckley following the attempt on the life of President Reagan in Washington on March 31, 1981. Former press secretary James Brady lies wounded in the foreground. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

FILE - John W. Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, holds a pistol to his head in this self-portrait obtained from court records in Oct. 1982 file photo. On March 30, 1981, Reagan was leaving a Washington hotel after addressing labor leaders when Hinckley fired six shots at him. A bullet lodged an inch from Reagan's heart, but he recovered. Reagan died Saturday, June 5, 2004 after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 93. (AP Photo, file)

FILE - John Hinckley Jr., shown in this Sept. 16, 1982 file photo, withdrew his request Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1996 for monthly family visits away from a mental hospital where he was sent after trying to kill President Ronald Reagan on March 31, 1981. A court-appointed psychiatrist and psychologist who conducted examinations this fall rejected Hinckley's claim that he had regained his mental health, defense attorney Barry Levine acknowledged. (AP Photo/file)

FILE - Vincent Fuller, the chief defense counsel for accused presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr., speaks with reporters outside federal court in Washington on May 19, 1982. The star Washington attorney who successfully defended Hinckley, has died in a suburban Maryland hospice. He was 75. Fuller, who lived in Bethesda, Md., died Wednesday, July 26, 2006 of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, The Washington Post reported Saturday, July 29, 2006. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE - John Hinckley Jr. is escorted from U.S. District Court in Washington in this April 13, 1987 file photo. A divided appeals court panel cleared the way Friday, Jan. 15, 1999 for Hinckley to make supervised day trips away from the mental hospital where he has been confined since he tried to assassinate former President Reagan. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

FILE - Would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr. arrives at U.S. District Court Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003 in Washington. Hinckley has asked a federal judge for permission to make 10 unsupervised visits to his parents' home, the first unsupervised trips from a Washington, D.C., mental hospital since he was committed in 1982. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

FILE - In a Nov. 18, 2003 file photo, John Hinckley Jr. arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington. Hinckley is being granted additional time away from the Washington psychiatric hospital where he lives. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 approved an unspecified number of extra visits by John Hinckley to his mother's home in Virginia. Hinckley lives at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 as he left a Washington hotel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 18: A security personnel stands guard at the gate of St. Elizabeth's Hospital December 18, 2003 in Washington, DC. A court ruling has granted permission to John Hinckley, the man who shot U.S. president Ronald Reagan in 1981, for unsupervised visit from the hospital where he is staying to his parents' home in neighboring Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 20: Sarah Brady (R) wife of Jim Brady who was shot during the President Reagan assassination attempt and an anti-gun activist, stands with attorney David Boies (L) during a press conference February 20, 2004 at City Hall in New York City. They were joined by others to assail the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" for its protection of reckless gun dealers and manufacturers. The U.S. senate is expected to vote on the bill early next week. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - JUNE 16: Former White House Press Secretary under the Reagan Administration James Brady (L) is pushed by White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton during his visit at the White House June 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Brady was shot in the head and became permanently disabled during the assassination attempt on former president Ronald Reagan in 1981. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - JUNE 16: Former White House Press Secretary under the Reagan Administration James Brady (L) is greeted by ABC National Correspondent Ann Comton (R) during his visit to the White House Briefing Room, which named after Brady, June 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Brady was shot in the head and became permanently disabled during the assassination attempt on former president Ronald Reagan in 1981. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 29: While riding a tour bus a couple pose for a photo while passing the Hilton hotel where John Hinckley, Jr. tried to assassinate 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in 1981 December 29, 2010 in Washington, DC. The winter tourists to the Washington area were spared from a sever winter storm that effected much of the east coast. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 30: Former White House Press Secretary James Brady (3rd L), his son Scott Brady (4th L) and wife Sarah Brady (C) visit the press briefing room that bears his name in the West Wing of the White House with current Press Secretary Jay Carney (3rd R) March 30, 2011 in Washington, DC. Brady was visiting the White House on the 30th anniversary of the day he was shot in the head by John Hinckley, Jr., during his attempted assassination former President Ronald Reagan March 30, 1981. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 04: A plaque honoring former White House Press Secretary James S. Brady hangs in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 4, 2014 in Washington, DC. Brady who died August 4 at the age of 73, was White House Press Secretary under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and was shot during an assassination attempt on Reagan. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 04: A reporter takes a photograph of a plaque honoring former White House Press Secretary James S. Brady in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 4, 2014 in Washington, DC. Brady who died August 4 at the age of 73, was White House Press Secretary under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and was shot during an assassination attempt on Reagan. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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FILE - Then-Press Secretary James Brady lies on the ground, left, after being wounded during the assassination attempt on then President Reagan in Washington on March 30, 1981. The Supreme Court Friday, June 27, 1997 struck down a key part of the Brady gun-control law- the requirement that local police check the backgrounds of prospective gun buyers. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

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