Talk:Reagan assassination attempt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Reagan assassination attempt article.
This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.
Article policies
Peer review Reagan assassination attempt has had a peer review by Wikipedia editors which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.
Good articles Reagan assassination attempt (reviewed version) has been listed as a good article under the good-article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do.
If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a review.

Added some info on Hinckley's motivation for the assassination attempt, ie his obsession with Jodie Foster and the movie Taxi Driver. My rain face 21:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)


I think many viewers would like links to video-sources of the event to really see the kaos that erupted and the speed Reagan was rushed away with. 10:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)Zarkow

Contents

[edit] Discharge?

When did he recover and act as the POTUS again in the hospital?

When did he walk out the hospital? -- Toytoy 04:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The inevitable conspiracy theory

I added it in under the section about Al Haig, since it seemed to follow on in natural sequence. (So far, no one has pointed out the umbrella visible in the photo, but that can only be a matter of time ... :¬) Garrick92 14:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

This should be removed as it links to a home made website as its citation...not exactly reliable Macutty 18:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Based on verifiability most of the conspiracy section should be removed. geocity website don;t meet wiki standards, nor due a couple home made websites that seem to re-publish the same info. If no one responds over the next few weeks I'll make the edits. Macutty 22:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Himmler connection

Hinckley is also the grand-nephew of former Gestapo head Heinrich Himmler, and is thought to have been used as a pawn by a network of ex-Nazis seeking revenge on Reagan for his WWII espionage.

I removed this sentence, feeling that such a bold statement needs to be verified to warrant inclusion. Nufy8 00:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

The reference provided by the anon redirects to the History Channel's Web site and, more specifically, to its video gallery. I searched for audio and video related to Hinckley, Himmler, and the Reagan assassination attempt, and found nothing that spoke of a connection between the Gestapo head and this would-be assassin. If there's something I'm missing, please point it out. I'm reverting the addition for now. Nufy8 03:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slight difference

The bullet that hit Reagan is variously said to have ricochet-ed off the bullet-proof glass

in the car window and off the painted metal side of the car. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.139.113.156 (talk) 14:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

Three seconds are mentioned but the true figure seems to be more like two seconds.

[edit] Haig's quote

Haig's quote "I'm in charge here" is incomplete. He said we was in control 'pending the returns of the Vice President, keeping in contact with the VP & pointing out the VP was executively in charge'. GoodDay 20:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Unedited"

Supposedly unedited footage has a three-second gap in it, from my point of view.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.74.62.19 (talk) 11:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] GA failed

I have failed the article since it has multiple citation needed tags. Please add inline citations to the statements requested by the tags and any other statements you think someone would question for verifiability. Please renominate it after you have addressed this, as the article shouldn't have too many other major problems. --Nehrams2020 00:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, on my talk page you said that this article didn't have any inline citations. There are currently 31 of them. There aren't very many 'citation needed' tags, so what's the problem? --Wasted Sapience 02:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
The article cannot have any "citation needed" tags at all to pass, so that is why I failed it at that time. I'll look this article over again later this week, unless somebody else reviews it before then. --Nehrams2020 20:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The article doesn't have any "citation needed" tags right now, although I wish I knew how to reference the same source more than once in the article using those ^abcde things. --Wasted Sapience 20:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
At the time I reviewed it earlier, it did have those tags, so it's good to see that they are gone now. To use the same reference all you have to do is create a title for the reference, with something like<ref name="ReaganTime"> and put that before the first instance of the reference. Then you put the <ref name="ReaganTime"/> after the statement you want to cite. Look to other passed GA/FAs for examples. --Nehrams2020 22:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
By the way, the screenshot for the film needs a fair use rationale. --Nehrams2020 22:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Alright, could you just go ahead and add one? I don't know where the templates are. --Wasted Sapience 22:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vice-president

I find it strange that in an article on a nearly successful assassination attempt, during which control of the executive branch was (momentarily) disputed, Vice-President Bush barely rates a parenthetical mention. All I know is that he was in Texas at the time, but having a little more info would help put Haig's hip-shot in better context. --Tysto 01:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

After searching through New York Times and Washington Post archives, I'm unable to find any more information about that. He was traveling, he was in Texas, and he flew back to Washington after Reagan was shot. There just isn't much more to it than that. --Wasted Sapience 20:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA on hold

The article looks very good, but just needs a few things fixed before I'll pass it.

  1. Add a few more wikilinks throughout the article for some terms a reader may not know about such as dean, Greyhound,
  2. The screenshot still needs a fair use rationale, add something like what is found at Image:Anchormenweapons.JPG. I can't add one since I am reviewing the article. In the fair use rationale be sure to mention it is for the use in a historical event that can't be duplicated or something to that effect.
  3. "ATF agents found out in 16 minutes that the gun was purchased at Rocky's Pawn Shop in Dallas, Texas." Consider adding "in 16 minutes after the assassination attempt".
  4. It appears the license of Image:Reagan recovering after being shot 1981.jpg needs to be updated; choose the correct license from the options listed.
  5. Not really a big deal, but change Air Force 2 to Air Force Two.
  6. "The not guilty verdict led to widespread dismay [26][27], and, as a result, the U.S. Congress, and a number of states, rewrote the law regarding the insanity defense [28] ." Fix the spacing of the inline citations, they go directly after the punctuation.

These are all relatively minor to fix and shouldn't be too much of a problem. Let me know if you need any help with any of them or if you need further clarification. Fix these within seven days and I'll pass the article. Alert me on my talk page once you have fixed them all. --Nehrams2020 22:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

This should all be fixed now. --Wasted Sapience 20:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA passed

Excellent work on completing all of the above suggestions in such a short time period. I have passed this article as a GA according to the GA criteria. Good job on the article, and consider improving other articles to GA status. If you have the time, please review an article or two at GAC, we currently have a backlog of over 135 articles that need to be reviewed. --Nehrams2020 20:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. --Wasted Sapience 20:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Link

I removed the following link, Keeping guns out of the "wrong" hands: the Brady law and the limits of regulation. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, because it is far outside the scope of this article. That link may be appropriate for the Brady Bill article, but it certainly doesn't belong here. --Wasted Sapience 15:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/e/a/Talk%7EReagan_assassination_attempt_e002.html"