jr. with the stories you haven t heard, the police officer who questioned hinckley speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn t think that he realized the magnitude of what he had done. andrea canning: from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? andrea canning: secrets from his diaries uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actress jodie foster. the letters were assumed to have been love type letters. andrea canning: and the most controversial question of all. is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potentially dangerous character. he s proven that. hello and welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day more than 40 years ago, gunman john hinckley jr. has remained an enigma. now we are about to reveal an extraordinary trove of his most private thoughts and feelings and provide a firsthand look at his contentious second act as a free man. here s special contributor troy robert
to the white house, rawhide is okay. we interrupt, there s been a late development, shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short while ago. here s bernard shaw in our washington bureau. okay, my apology. details are very sketchy at this moment. we don t know precisely what happened, we don t know the sequence. first of all, the president is safe. safe, yes. but not okay. reagan starts complaining of pain in his back, his chest and his side. not feeling so good. just then, i coughed. and i had a handful of bright, red, frothy blood. and he said, i think i ve cut the inside of my mouth. i said, let me look. and it was pretty profuse. parr knows this is big trouble. so, he has a decision to make. do i head back to the white house, the safest place in the known universe? or does he avert to george washington hospital, the nearest trauma center, where there s not an ounce of security? do we want to go to the emergency room, george
we interrupt, there s been a late development, shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short while ago. here s bernard shaw in our washington bureau. okay, my apology. details are very sketchy at this moment. we don t know precisely what happened, we don t know the sequence. first of all, the president is safe. safe, yes. but not okay. reagan starts complaining of pain in his back, his chest and his side. not feeling so good. just then, i coughed. and i had a handful of bright, red, frothy blood. and he said, i think i ve cut the inside of my mouth. i said, let me look. and it was pretty profuse. parr knows this is big trouble. so he has a decision to make. do i head back to the white house, the safest place in the known universe? or does he avert to george washington hospital, the nearest trauma center, where there s not an ounce of security? do we want to go to the emergency room, george washington? that s a roger.
we interrupt. there s been a late development. shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short while ago. here s bernard shaw in our washington bureau. okay, my apology. details are very sketchy at this moment. we don t know precisely what happened. we don t know the sequence. first of all, the president is safe. safe, yes. but not okay. reagan starts complaining of pain in his back, his chest and his side. not feeling so good. just then, i coughed. and i had a handful of bright, red, frothy blood. and he said, i think i ve cut the inside of my mouth. i said, let me look. and it was pretty profuse. parr knows this is big trouble. so he has a decision to make. do i head back to the white house, the safest place in the known universe? or does he avert to george washington hospital, the nearest trauma center, where there s not an ounce of security? do we want to go to the emergency room, george washington? that s a roger. but ronald reagan s
we interrupt, there s been a late development, shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short while ago. here s bernard shaw in our washington bureau. okay, my apology. details are very sketchy at this moment. we don t know precisely what happened, we don t know the sequence. first of all, the president is safe. safe, yes. but not okay. reagan starts complaining of pain in his back, his chest and his side. not feeling so good. just then, i coughed. and i had a handful of bright, red, frothy blood. and he said, i think i ve cut the inside of my mouth. i said, let me look. and it was pretty profuse. parr knows this is big trouble. so he has a decision to make. do i head back to the white house, the safest place in the known universe? or does he avert to george washington hospital, the nearest trauma center, where there s not an ounce of security?