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jr. with the stories you haven't heard, the police officer who questioned hinckley speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn't think that he realized the magnitude of what he had done. andrea canning: from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? andrea canning: secrets from his diaries uncovered by "dateline." his obsession with actress jodie foster. the letters were assumed to have been love type letters. andrea canning: and the most controversial question of all. is hinckley really fit to be free? he's a potentially dangero...

Joining me now is the author of "rawhide down" and uncovered new information in the book. it was tough to put it down, congratulations on the new book. >> thank you very much and thanks for having me. >> shannon: so much of the book focuses on what happened with the medical treatment of the president and initially a lot of folks not realizing he ended up being shot. izing o of folks not real how touch and go it was. >> we have to set the scene. he emerges from the vip where he gave a routine speech that day at 2:27 p.m. on march 30, 1981. he comes out and john w. h hinckley, jr. unleashes six ...

Gunfire and that same agent getting him to the hospital on time, ronald reagan would have died and on march 31, 1981, george h.w. bush would have woken up as president of the united states. >> that agent is responsible for basically, as you say, saving his life twice that day. it was also remarkable, too, is that he lost more than half his blood and i don't think many americans knew that. a lot of it seemed like was being kept quiet. >> and that's exactly. when i interviewed more than 125 people for "rawhide down" and did all this research you quickly came to conclude that the story that you t...

>> welcome back to "fox & friends." well, he came close to dying twice. 30 years after the assassination attempt on ronald reagan, the untold stories about that horrific day are revealed in the new book called "rawhide down." >> the author and "washington post" reporter dell wilbur is here. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> doing well. so you say that this story has an incomplete for the past 30 years. that we haven't known some of the most vital details of that day. for instance, you say that president reagan came much closer to dying than we ever knew. how so? >> well, what's ke...

Pick it out. it's called "rawhide down, the near assassination of ronald reagan." thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. coming up, so much for april 29th. prince william and kate middleton already tied the knot? what? >> then what do you think? should smokers and obese people pay more for medicaid? there are two sides to this story if you can imagine. and we have them next. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspireby you. and we've been honor...