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[edit] Reagan Assassination Attempt

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This is one of the highlights of the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the assassination attempt on his life a mere 69 days into his first term as president. This montage gives a look at the shooting immediately before and after it occured, and shows the rapid response from the body guards around Reagan which is beleived to be one of the main factors in his survival.
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The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr., who had previously stalked President Jimmy Carter and had a history of mental illness. Here, a collection of images show the events begin just before the shooting and ending just after it.
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Reagan assassination attempt
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Photos are PD from the Government, monatage created by Happyme22
  • Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 06:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comments Fascinating. Too bad about the jpeg artifacts. Is Hinckley visible in any of the images? To be really enc I'd also need to know where Reagan was in the later images. Ideally there'd be some sort of key along side the images saying who was whom. Debivort 07:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Reagan was shoved toward the black limo visable at the right, therefore he would be near the back door of the limo in the subsequent three shots. Hinkley would be at the bottom of the doggy pile in the latter three images, the security detail pounced on him almost immediately.
    • Comment Per memory, Hinckley's gun was just visible in a news photograph from a different angle taken by chance moments before he fired, but because he was literally squeezing between cameramen to shoot (intentionally or not using them as cover) he isn't really visible in the first panel. There are also shots, probably not in this sequence, that show Reagan being manhandled into the limo. It's fairly easy, though, to identify McCarthy, Delahanty, and Brady as the other victims, and I think the secret service guy with the automatic weapon is also identifiable. But I don't like this version anyway. --Dhartung | Talk 19:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I think this may be a combination of jpeg and upsampling. An 7.8MP image like this (not tons of fine texture) should compress to .5MB reasonably well, certainly without this many artifacts. Following the link, I cannot find images this high-res, unless you pay for a "300 dpi 8x10 JPG or TIFF," which this is substatially smaller than. thegreen J Are you green? 13:40, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • oppose very poor quality.Chris H 00:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • oppose for some reason the images were upsampled. Atomsgive 00:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • neutral I'm waffling between the low quality of the photos and the wonderful immediacy of the action. In the last frame you can see (what I suppose is) Hinkley's pistol on the ground, an agent reaching for it, and an open briefcase with a machine-gun-shaped foam insert. All fascinating details, but it would be better to have scans of the original photos. --Bridgecross 13:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Terrible quality. NyyDave 14:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Although the images are unique, this particular digital version of them is not. We can wait until a better one is found. --Dhartung | Talk 19:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Dhartung, M.K. 12:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose I agree, the quality of the digital version of terrible. I'd like to see each image be somewhat bigger too. --Aqwis 19:09, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)