remember ronald reagan survived john hinckley and responded with humor i hope you doctors are all republican and honey i forgot to duck you had to wheel the enormous sense of relief that we were scared another one. kennedy himself had a sense of humor and response was grace and humor and the whole dynamic of the primary changes. i do think if not hubert humphrey would have won the big state politicians america meant it is it shakes things louis and if you imagine as one history suggests mayor richard daley was prepared to endorse bobby he thought the war was a disaster and every ground but what happens to the demonstrations in chicago? we don't have thousands and thousands of people but you have radical protesters that is very different what about president johnson? would he be so angry when nemesis was competing he would try to and get the nomination back? he did in real life. there were operatives in johnson's plan was to announce a soviet summit to fly to chicago to give a speech and think maybe he could shake the delegates to use in india and his people said it will not work. but if you

then you have john hinckley. john hinckley was coming from california to d.c. to new york city and then on to new haven connecticut where he wanted to kill. kill himself or kill both of them. that object of affection was jody foster the actor. he attended sister with her since 1976. he wanted to go there to get her and he was coming through d.c.. he was on a layover. after eating his egg mcmuffin sandwich he opened the newspaper and on a for he saw the present schedule. maybe i'll take my gun up to the hilt and see how close i can get he thought. yet a small 22 caliber revolver in his pocket. headstock carter during the campaign and in his mind he thought if i got the president i will earn her affection. she will know who i i am. in fact he got within arm's reach of carter at a rally in dayton ohio in october but he left his gun at the bus depot. he had stopped with reagan during the translation and at some point transfer to reagan realizing was a -- reagan was a bigger figure. so here he is 2:27 p.m. as reagan is emerging from the vip entrance and in hinckley'

you remember what happened when ronald reagan survived john hinckley and survive with humor. i hope you adopt this role in public and i don't care what your politics where you had to hear an enormous sense of relief for him and the country that we were scared another one. robert kennedy had a sense of humor and he responds to this with humor and the dynamic of that primary changes. had there been nothing like that hubert humphrey would have won and my argument is that shakes things loose. if you imagine, as one history of that campaign that mayor richard daley was prepared to endorse bobby, he thought the war a disaster on every ground including political. what happens to the demonstrations? you don't have thousands of people. you have marginalize radical protests. that is very different. what about president johnson? would he have been so angry that his nemesis was repeating that he might try to get the nomination back? that sounds pretty absurd except in real life he did. there were five johnson operatives at the chicago convention including postmaster general and chief pol

that's a verdict that follows a trial as in the case of john hinckley jr. who shot president reagan. but a finding that jared loughner is mentally unfit would mean no trial in tucson for now and, perhaps, forever. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> up next, it could be a summer blockbuster. but tonight there is a big legal headache for "the hangover." >>> now, here's a question. what do you get when you cross a big hollywood movie, a tattoo artist and mike tyson's face? well, for one thing, a lawsuit. nbc's kerry sanders explains. >> reporter: mike tyson, the one-time heavyweight champ of the world perhaps is well known these days as the guy with that tattoo on his face. a tattoo that shows up in the upcoming movie "the hangover part ii." but it's not the ink on tyson but rather on that guy. >> this is a real tattoo! >> reporter: that's the center of controversy. the artist who says he created the original tattoo is now suing the movie producers warner brothers for copyright infringement. artist victor whitmill says his design is one of the most disti

will smith thought but he believed in hinckley had to be arraigned in court by the end of today, along with john webster, who was the head of the fbi at the time, we had to clear up the court house, then reestablish the amount of people that went in, and then at 11:00 that night, we had the arraignment in the federal court house, and it was a very strange game. having had breakfast in the morning with president reagan, and being in court with his attempted assassin,, i always wondered if he had been successful what would have happened to this country. i am sure i am emotionally biased toward president reagan, but i really believe i am objective and saying he was the most -- he had the most impact on changing the united states and changing the world, liberation of millions of people. most residents do not get to liberate millions of people. ronald reagan did because he had such a strong view on how to deal with communism, which is a lot clearer and easier to understand then his predecessors. he had the conviction communism was evil, and you had to confront it rather than negotiate, and the prior