The “Hinckley Hilton”: Inside the security apparatus where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting took place

Timothy Reboulet never calls it the Washington Hilton. Nobody in his former line of work ever does. “Within the agency,” the former Secret Service agent says, “we refer to it as the ‘Hinckley’ Hilton.” That’s because on March 30, 1981 — just steps outside the hotel — John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on then-President Ronald … Read more