Rawhide Down_ The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan - Del Quentin Wilber [127]
“Were you hit?”… Reagan said: Unrue Secret Service report (redacted); Parr FBI report (redacted).
Parr fumbled for the radio: Interview with Parr.
“Give me the radio”: Interviews with Parr and Unrue.
“Rawhide is okay”: Treasury report; transcript of radio calls provided by the Secret Service. All radio dialogue in this section comes from the Treasury report, Secret Service reports, or the transcript of the radio calls.
A few seconds later: Treasury report.
the president looked as if: Interview with Parr.
“I think you hurt my rib”: Interview with Parr; Parr FBI report (redacted); Reagan FBI report.
“Is it your heart?” Parr asked: Unrue Secret Service report (redacted).
it was coated in blood: Interview with Parr.
“I think I cut the inside”: Parr FBI report (redacted).
Half kneeling, half sitting: Interview with Parr.
Hunched forward in the driver’s seat: Interview with Unrue; Unrue Secret Service report (redacted); Unrue FBI report.
Unrue saw two agents, their Uzis drawn: Unrue Secret Service report (redacted).
About a mile from the Hilton: Weakley Secret Service report (redacted).
D.C. police officers were not far behind: D.C. police officers’ FBI reports.
Jerry Parr examined the president: Interview with Parr.
was now pressing his handkerchief to his lips: Interview with Parr.
“I think we should go to the hospital”: Unrue FBI report (redacted).
“Get us to George Washington as fast as you can”: Unrue Secret Service report (redacted).
“We want to go to the emergency room of George Washington”: Treasury report.
“Go to George Washington fast”: Treasury report; Secret Service transcripts.
“Get an ambulance, I mean, get a stretcher out there,” Parr said: Treasury report; Secret Service transcripts.
streaked across L Street: Gordon Secret Service report.
Mary Ann Gordon tried to reach: Gordon Secret Service report.
she received no reply: Interview with Gordon.
“We have to get in front of the limo”: Gordon Secret Service report.
The spare limousine made the sharp right: Gordon Secret Service report.
It was the so-called route car: Timothy Burns Secret Service report; Secret Service report of unidentified driver of route car. Burns was a passenger in the route car.
Only Jerry Parr knew: Interviews with various agents and police officers; review of Secret Service reports.
Deaver had scrambled: Deaver, Behind the Scenes, p. 17; interview with Fischer.
Fischer reached over: Interview with Fischer.
Holding back tears, he started to pray: Interview with Fischer.
A few blocks away: Interview with Trainor; Trainor Secret Service report; interview with Guy; Guy Secret Service report; Treasury report.
Drew Unrue asked Jerry Parr: Interviews with Unrue and Parr.
The two agents with Uzis: McIntosh Secret Service report; interview with Miller; Frederick White Secret Service report; interview with White.
I guess he wants to: Interview with Parr.
He steadied himself and hitched: Interview with Fischer; Deaver, A Different Drummer, p. 135.
So far, so good: Deaver, A Different Drummer, p. 135.
Fischer felt less: Interview with Fischer.
It was 2:30 p.m.: Shaddick radioed Trainor at the command post that they had arrived, and Trainor checked the clock to mark the time, according to Trainor’s Secret Service report.
a 512-bed medical center: “Excitement, Inconvenience; Reagan Stay Has Its Effect on GW Hospital,” WP, April 2, 1981, p. A6.
a dozen or so patients: White Secret Service report. He estimated that there were twelve to fifteen patients in the area of the emergency room.
In Trauma Bay 5: Interviews with Dr. Joyce Mitchell, Kathy Paul, and Bob Hernandez; contemporaneous notes taken by Kathy Paul; The Saving of the President.
“I’m tired of my buddies getting shot down!”: Paul notes; interview with Paul.
Mitchell knew that anyone: The Saving of the President.
was wheeled to a nearby room: Interviews with Paul and Mitchell.
A moment later, a small white