CNN Stalker The Reagan Shooting March 31, 2013 06:48:00
After it ricocheted off the wall. >> how close to the heart? >> probably about an inch or so. >> another doctor performed the surgery. it took an hour to reach the bullet and pull it from the president's chest. >> we had some difficulty finding it in the lung, but he did, and then he took it out and dropped it right into a specimen cup. >> by the time vice president bush arrived back from texas, the president was out of surgery and out of danger. in the recovery room, reagan wrote notes on a clipboard, including this line, comic w.c. fields suggested for his own gravestone, "all in all, i'd ra...