streets, but never anything like john hinkley. he is as flat the fact, this boyish, fractured air. piercing, blue eyes. he was just as, as can be. one point he's not talking and he wants a lawyer. meyers was typing his report like you could imagine a d.c. police officer what type of report with two fingers. he turns to dennis mccarthy and says, how did you spell the word assassinate. hinkley spell that and spell it correctly. and so, you know, that is what hinkley was. eventually hinkley this gives the washington field office. the city service agents and fbi agents questioned him. there is a wonderful moment. people said this was a loner. another surprising thing about this story. full of surprises. the guys investigating the case were not convinced that hinkley was a loner until about 7:00 or 730 that night. there is a moment where a veteran fbi agent questions and. he has to figure out if there are other assassins in the city. people some aside and said, john, i need to know, were you acting alone? heatley just looked at him and said, aha, i was acting alone. meanwhile, steve col

which is the plot in here and you think about what happened with ronald reagan after he survived john hinkleynd you think of the relief and the good will and the good grace and humor with which reagan dealt with that, i turned out to be enormously important to him. well, if you picture robert kennedy responding the same way, the dynamic of the 1968 campaign now takes on a whole different meaning. it's thrown into a whole new calculus. and then i just decided, okay, i'm going to do this. i then remember, because i have the kind of memory that i can remember 50-year-old things but not where my keys are. >> host: absolutely, yeah. it's a function of old age. >> guest: okay, i accept that. and i remembered reading in arthur schlesinger, just one sense referenced in the fact there was a suicide bomber who was stalking john kennedy in 1960. and when i finally, thanks to the lord google found the facts, it turns out this guy was at john kennedy's palm beach's home with a carloaded with diunanimous and he was a lunatic. the secret service took no notice of him because it was 1960 and a more innocent