Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet | 4
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The President's Life Was in His Hands
Dr. Benjamin erin continued to probe for the bullet that had lodged somewhere in the president's lung Two hours into the surgery erin was growing concerned Although reagan was stable he'd lost 40 percent of his blood and erin was no closer to finding and extracting the bullet. A new x-ray arrived in the o-r and erin consulted the image Finally he spotted the bullet. It was in reagan's left long as he thought but lower than where he'd been searching Dr. erin knew instantly that this bullet had been a ricochet Soon he would be proven correct when john hankley jr found himself in an interview room at an fbi field office under questioning
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