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[NEWS] レーガン大統領を護った元シークレットサービス隊員が引退

1981年3月30日、ワシントンのヒルトンホテルで起きた、ロナルド・レーガン大統領暗殺未遂事件で、大統領を護るために銃弾を受けて負傷した元シークレットサービス隊員Tim McCarthy氏が、勤務していたオーランドパーク警察を引退した。

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"Secret Service Agent Shot in Reagan Assassination Attempt Retires as Orland Park Police Chief"

On March 30, 1981, six shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan by would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr.
Chicago native Tim McCarthy was there. At the time, the 32-year-old Secret Service agent was assigned to Reagan’s detail, and he was called on to make what could have been the ultimate sacrifice: He put his body between the president and Hinckley and was hit with the third of six shots the gunman fired that day.
McCarthy says he recalls the incident clearly in what had been an otherwise routine day in Washington protecting the president on a visit to the Washington Hilton hotel.

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