Introduction

Imagine it's mid-afternoon on Monday March 30th, 1981. You're a nurse working in the emergency room of George Washington University Hospital and as usual today has been busy. Three people come in with gunshot wounds that you have to assume one of them is the president your head starts to spin with a million different thoughts But then your training kicks inYou need to clear the emergency room and prepare to be overrun by police and secret service agents The president of the United States is on his way to your hospital right now There's a good chance you and your fellow emergency room workers are going to be called on to save his life American history tellers airs at 9 p.m. ET/