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Rawhide Down: The Day President Ronald Reagan Was Shot, and Lived to tell the Tale

Host- Lee Habeeb

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On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot. This is the story told by those who were there. [PHOTO: President Reagan being pushed into his limousine by Secret Service agents after being shot outside the Hilton hotel in Washington D.C.]

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