Jerry S. Parr, the Secret Service agent credited with saving President Ronald Reagan’s life amid a death endeavor in 1981, died Friday at a hospice close to his home in Washington. He was 85. The death was affirmed by Parr’s wife Carolyn and she said that he died of heart failure . Parr was just feet far from Mr. Reagan when W. Hinckley opened fire on the president near the Washington Hilton hotel on the date March 30, 1981. “When he spoke the truth presumably six or seven feet from the car, I heard these shots,” Mr. Parr said in…
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well, it turns out that young jerry parr had set his heart on becoming a secret service agent from boyhood. when he was 9 he d talked his father into taking him to see code of the secret service. its hero was a dashing agent and pilot named brass bancroft. you can see the appeal it had for a young boy like parr. according to the studio build-up at the time, bancroft and his fellow agents were required to be dauntless in the face of danger and fearless in the face of death. on march 30th, 1981 at 2:30 in the afternoon the man who started code of the secret service had just given a speech at the washington hilton hotel. he was heading to his car when shots rang out. in the midst of that horror jerry parr followed the secret service rule of cover and evacuate. this is the president, parr yelled to those out in front of george washington university hospital. it was just three minutes after they d left the hilton. ronald reagan had lost a huge amount of blood through internal bleeding.