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Assassination Week #3: How The Reagan Assassination Attempt Made Everything Worse

It Could Happen Here

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I Think He's a Gun Dork, Maybe Dabbling in Samarias?

John Hinkley is the president elect of Colorado in 1980s. He's buying a bunch of hand guns, shooting a lot and using explosive bullets to make them more like 38 caliber rounds. His dad cuts him off when he gets back from his trip home after John Linnen was assassinated. "He has to be forced to kind of get his shit together," says Coltur.

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