KEY PLAYERS
Reagan Administration (partial list)
George H. W. Bush: Ronald Reagan’s vice president, later the forty-first president of the United States, 1989–1993
Alexander Haig: secretary of state
Ronald Reagan: fortieth president of the United States, 1981–1989
Casper Weinberger: secretary of defense
George HW Bush
Alexander Haig
Casper Weinberger
Executive Office of the President
Richard Allen: national security adviser
James Baker III: chief of staff
James Brady: press secretary
Michael Deaver: deputy chief of staff
Edwin Meese III: counselor to the president
Larry Speakes: deputy press secretary
James Baker III
Michael Deaver
Edwin Meese
Secret Service (White House Detail)
Tim McCarthy: Secret Service agent
George Opfer: head of the first lady’s protective detail
Jerry Parr: head of the Presidential Protective Division
Others
Benjamin Aaron: surgeon who removed the bullet from Ronald Reagan’s lung
Leonid Brezhnev: leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982
Jimmy Carter: thirty-ninth president of the United States, 1977–1981
Thomas Delahanty: D.C. police officer
Gerald Ford: thirty-eighth president of the United States, 1974–1977
Jodie Foster: actress who starred in Taxi Driver
Joseph Giordano: surgeon, head of the trauma unit at George Washington University Hospital
John Warnock Hinckley Jr.: loner, wanderer, failed assassin
Richard Nixon: thirty-seventh president of the United States, the only one to resign from office, 1969–1974
Nancy Davis Reagan: Ronald Reagan’s second wife
Jimmy Carter
John Warnock Hinckley Jr.
Richard Nixon