A federal judge said John W. Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, would be unconditionally released from prison later this month. U.S. history is full of attempts and precious few successful assassinations of the president.
Today on River to River, Ben Kieffer sits down with presidential historians to walk through a history of presidential assassinations in the United States.
Guests:
- Tim Walch, presidential historian and retired director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch
- Tim Naftali, former director at the Nixon Library, co-author of Impeachment: An American History