The Reagan family and selected guests attend the interment service at Pres. Reagan's gravesite at his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA.

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On March 30th 1981, President Ronald Reagan, code-named ”Rawhide" had just delivered a lunch-time speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel. While exiting the hotel, the President was fired upon by John Hinckley, Jr. and suffered a gunshot wound.
 
Tonight, the Newseum marked the event by bringing together two of the men involved in saving President Reagan's life, Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr and George Washington University Hospital surgeon Dr. Joseph Giordano.

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

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Tom Brokaw of NBC, Former California Governor and U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, and authors Richard Reeves, Lou Cannon and Doug Brinkley debate the legacy of Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.  This year marks the 100^th Anniversary of Reagan’s birth.

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Ronald Reagan was born in 1911, and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is marking the 40th president’s centennial by featuring his life and presidency in their “One Life” room. We visited the National Portrait Gallery and toured the Ronald Reagan “One Life” exhibit with curator Sidney Hart.

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50 years ago, on April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while being held in prison for his involvement in a city-wide civil rights protest called the Birmingham Campaign. King’s daughter, Bernice King, CEO of the King Center in Atlanta, joins Alabama’s governor, Birmingham’s Mayor and others for the unveiling of a historical marker aside the Birmingham Jail.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham civil rights campaign. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famed “Letter from Birmingham Jail” after being arrested for taking part in the protests. The campaign gained national attention after local officials used dogs and water cannons on kids after they took to the streets in what was known as the “Children’s Crusade.” A panel of authors and historians recall the turmoil of the time, as well as how Birmingham has chosen to remember its past. This event was part of the Alabama Historical Association’s annual conference.

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At the direction of Congress, the voices and experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20^th century are being documented in an oral history project. This effort is a collaboration of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, the Library of Congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign in Alabama. The protests gained national attention after local officials used dogs and water cannons on kids after they took to the streets in what was known as the “Children’s Crusade.” This event features first-person accounts of the events in Birmingham that spring, including remarks by those who took part in the children’s protest, as well as student leaders of a boycott of segregated businesses. The discussion took place at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. 

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