” ae * cee meee ee oe me Om, % to. . . . ord = ee, a “sey oe -_-= or? as o som ‘ “| . : : : ee e \. . oe - . ino. ‘Officer Hurt *...22¢bs2zeutet wenee H . « reau’slab technicians confirmed the With Reagan ‘Has Surgery . | finding, but it was not clear why this process took more than 72 hours. ‘Delahanty Serious, ‘Recovery Expected FBI officials first became aware ; , Monday evening of the possibility * that the bullets were explosiye'When | they searched the Park Géntral Ho- ; tel where Jo pWefi Bckley Jt.,ac < ‘cused in the shooting, had been /. By Howie Kurtz . Washington Star Staff Writer The bullets that wounded Presi- en /. , Staying. They refovered an en = r” . dent Reagan and three other men - cartridge box marked “Dev. -*in Hinckley’s room, SST e., -™ Some FBI Officials believe that the bullet that wounded Reagan ex- ploded after it ricocheted off his lim- ousine -but before it entered his ' -chest. But Divan acknowledged that the FBI was not certain about this, _ i Monday were explosive-type bullets | and that if Tae enid neve spline E ‘that could have detonated at any * lrst it proba - : time, the FBI disclosed yesterday, . tered into fragments. Doctors at. GW. :and a District police officer isin se- - hospital said the bullet removed . rious condition after one such bullet ; from Reagan’s lung was angled” but ‘was removed from his neck last ntact. “ni ° “We j ‘ f the bullet night. .. . We just don’t know i ; t The dramatic disclosure by the fxploded before it hit the president, “FBI raised the possibility that the .° qd, ‘resident wes infor grester danger”, huet that struck White Hous revious. ieved - ; Anan lodged y Reagan's left lung‘ Press secretary James Brady in the icould haverexploded while he was brain may have explgdtd, whic ‘on the operating table Monday even- could account for the sfrious injury ‘ing e oppraling , Brady sustaned. If ine bullets ex- ae _ * Eplode upon impact, they tear larger ‘ Bice Otter homes Ebel rt. Jes in the body. sahanginss, underwent three hours tothe new revelation also raysed the of sufgery at the Washington Hospi- —_gyestion of how Hinckley could have tal Center to remove the potentially obtained so-called “devastator” bul- explosive bullet in a procedure that - jets. FBI officials said these bullets, ‘one physician ‘described as “inti: which have explosive chemicals in cate, complicated and difficult.” + their hollow centers, are extremely , ; “If it had blown up inside him, it difficult to purchase commercially. could have done significant dam- FBI sources saj ey believe the “age,” said Dr. Howard Champion, the # bullets from the box found in Hinc- : chief of the hospital’s trauma unit) kley’s room Were manufactured by l«we treated the bullet with due ré } . Bingham, Ltd. of Norcross, Ga. . _ : ey can be detonated by heat, im- : , pact or some other stimulus, which ‘ said the FBI found th é Divan sdid would cause them to “ex- }.were explosive - more than/three | plode into fragments like shrapnel.” y,days after the shooting — by analyz-\\.-" “This gives us an indication that {ing.the bullets that were removed * 1 fromythe president and from wound- ted Sécret Service agent Timothy Mc- (ic “at George anton : £-fnfversity Hospital. my r ' i i z eae o = nee Oe An FBI spokesman, David Diyan i t 4 al a ~ ary “a * te Exec AD Adm. __ Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES ___ _sst. Dir.: Adm. Servs. Crim. Inv. Ident. Intell. Laborctory ____ Legal Coun. ___ Plan. & Insp. —— Rec. Mgnt. _ Tech. Servs. ___ Troining - — Public Affs. Off. Telephone Rm. —. Director's Sec’y — (Hinckley) had some knowledge of firearms and where to buy them,” Di- van said. “You can’t just walk into any gunshop and buy them.” - 1 - Ammunition is much more diffi- “cult to trace than a gun,” he said, adding that the FBI is continuing to investigate the origin of the bullets. The hospital gave the bullet to the D.C. police department, which has turned it over to an FBI crime lab for further analysis. . For Delahanty, He easy-going of- ficer who was défailed from the ca- nine patrol to“guard Reagan at the Washington/Hilton Monday, the sud- e€ c éd what had ap- peared 30 be a nearly complete recovery. Doctors at Washington Hospital Center had pronounced.his condition as “good,” and were not planning to surgically remove the bullet rom his neck because it posed. no danger to his health. In fact, the officer-had been scheduled to be re- Jeased as early as tomorrow. Delahanty’s wife, Jean, and more than a dozen police officers, includ- ing D.C. Police Chief Burtell M. Jef- ~ferson, came to the hospital last night when they received news of te SURBerY. The Washington Post Washington Star-News _h-f_ Daily News (New York) = The New York Times The Wail Street Journal _______ The Atlanta Constitution ____—_. The Los Angeles Times 1© Fet/00J HW 4952 Docld:32989491. Page 51_- pose’ Boctei ss
HW 54952 Docld: 329399491 Page 52 “ e868 * Delahanty was taken into surgery at about 8 p.m., where he underwent fariesthesia and a last-minute * radiological test to determine the precise location of the bullet. The pureery began about 9 p.m. to re- ove the .22-caliber bullet, which #was imbedded at the base of his neck just to the left of his spine, and ended . just before midnight. Doctors made a six-inch incision ¢, and removed parts of two of the of- ©: ficer’s ribs in order to extricate the > bullet with a pair of surgical forceps. 4 Delahanty is now in an intensive care unit and Champion said that , darring any complications, he ex- * pected the officer to make a full re- » covery with minimal, if any, nerve ‘ ¥ damage. Richard M. Loughery, the hospi- * tal 's chief executive officer, said that y.three surgeons and several other medical assistants had volunteered to perform the operation even after being warned that the bullet might explode during the surgery. “As long as we didn’t hit the bul- lets with a chisel or drop it, it prob- + ably had a relatively low chance of >. exploding,” Champion said. “But if it iy did, the consequences would be rath- i ‘er dramatic.” ¢ Champion said he didn’t know if §-the bullet would have exploded if it i had remained in the officer's body, “but there were sufficient unknown * elements about this projectile that - heightened-our-concern.” Champion said the hospital was , unable to determine the explosive * nature of the bullet, before receiv- ing acall from the FBI yesterday, be- _.cause earlier X-rays did not detect “yanything unusual about the lead pro- t ijectile. ‘Washington ‘Star Staff Writer Jane .. Mayer contributed f0 this report.
~ » free, yom Président Continues ‘Excellent Recovery *-’ ic..---By Jeremiah O'Leary ~~~ tp v= +» Washington Star Staff Wniter - *-- *~° f "President Reagan yesterday con" y tinued-his rapid recovery from his- = bullet wound. He took four walks in **his hospital suite and received a steady stream of visitors, briefings and phone calls. eo The 70-year-old president was vis- ited by Vice President George Bush, it Bdwin Meese III and Michael K.Dea- § ver of the White House staff and b j. his wife, Nancy. - - i _ . The White House press office said £ > the discussions between Reagan and s< his aides dealt mainly with national 3, Security matters. Meese and Deaver g left with Reagan a number of clas- _. sified documents and briefing mate- : tials to read and some documents to’ +, ‘sign in their brief, early afternoon .. . Visit. - . Last evening's medical report, af- *..ter surgical rounds had been made at George Washington University Hospital, said Reagan continues to * makes excellent progress. His condi- * tion is good, the report said, with res- *piration, heart rate and other vital x Signs well within normal limits, Dr. ¢ Dennis O'Leary, who has been chief ,. Spokesman for the hospital, said ev- . 8 QF , ‘ eryone should have the blood pres- , sure and pulse rates of the wounded, :_ president. - nr » Bush, in a conversation with visit- , ing Turkish Foreign Minister Iter Turkmen, described his meeting with Reagan yesterday afternoan. -*It’s:such-a-relief,” Bush.said. “Iwas. Spver there today and he’s signing - stuff. The danger is doing too much, ‘He's energetic. Mrs. Reagan would -like to see him quieter.” =. One doctor familiar with Reagan’s progress said that he had a “tenden- cy to push himself a bit,” but felt that gthere was a “pretty good balance” be- itween rest and work. . ie Meese gave the president a gian sRet-well card, signed by members of sthe Capitol Hill Club. ; ' The president had a lunch of | chicken broth, carrot.sticks, celery - and radishes, crackers, banana ice ; brief walk in the hallway in the af- -ternoon with Mrs. Reagan. ~ Reagan's doctors also said he is Snow receiving only Tylenol for pain ; and has had his first good night's sleep. - O'Leary said yesterday that Rea- sgan’s antibiotic therapy had been completed and that he was occasion- ‘ ally receiving some oxygen. Medical : .sources at GW indicated that be- -cause of the small risk of hepatitis from the blood-transfusions he-re- sceived Monday, Reagan had also re- ceived follow-up treatment with immunoglobulin as a “routine” pre- a wake > AW 549520 Docld: 32989491 ‘cream, cookies and water. He tooka - aa same Cae Wie eXpeptation is, according to ee: i@M that Reagan well be Bie hospital in about a ot eek, as , The id last night the .22- caliber slugs that hit Reagan and ‘threé others in Monday's assassina- ¢tion attempt probably were deadly p-“devastator bullets” designed to'ex- * plode on impact. . * An FBI spokesman said it was “not eout oF the question” that Reagan’s ifé was spared only by a fluke —the »Dullet’s ricochet off his limousine before entering his chest and lodg- “ing in his lung. ‘Advised of that finding, doctors at } Washington Hospital Center last. ‘night rethoved a bullet from the .C. policeman Thomas Del- , who was wounded in the at- , Delahanty was reported in serious, but stable condition after the emergency operation. The steady recovery of White House press secretary JamesS. Bra- iy, whose brain was pénetrated/by ‘a bullet Monday, also continues. Last ~ evening, "physicians said Brady's “post-operative status continues to . improve and that,‘the 40-year-old aide is clearer-mentally. The White House reported that Brady held a restricted conversation with his physician yesterday. When asked how he was feeling, Brady re- sponded with the thumbs-up sign ~and said, “Fine, fine.” Brady also"is now performing cable typeay 1. breathing exercises and has gained some minimal voluntary movement - . of the muscles of his left arm and leg. ‘Brady was the most seriously wounded of the gunman’s victims. ‘He has begun playing a form of catch with his-wife;-using-a-ball.of. gauze, . .and has been counting orally when asked to do so. ; ; The swelling that kept his eyes -< closed has begun to recede and Bra- . dy can now see again. When @ physi- cian held up three fingers and asked Brady how many there were, Brady : said, “three.” ; At a White House briefing yester- day GW spokesman O'Leary Said that ’ this implies “good function of rather complex nerve passways.” He cau- tioned, however, “We're a long ways from home on Mr. Brady.” ; He predicted that it could be “six - to twelve months” before any defini- * tive determination of his mental and physical impairment could be made. f And in the meantime, he added, “pos- * sible complications” could change his survival outlook. % Late yesterday medical -sources E said that Brady was “definitely doing . better” but they were “still cautious” F-about hisoutcome. - a/. x Secret Service agent Lamot : Carthy also is in good cond? “is vital signs are stable, doctors ‘€-said. The chest tubée.has :been re- E ‘moved and his injured lung has fully j expanded. McCarthy is now getting ~ some mild exercise by walking {around his hospital roomiy-5-  - Page 53 7 Fs awets ot bo Ab apian “signed yest a statement commemorattig a year of celebra- “tion in Turkey on the centennial of the birth of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. -:--When Bush met with Turkmen as ,Reagan’s representative, he noted “with satisfaction Turkish efforts to ‘improve bilateral relations with Greece and support for intercom- : unal talks on Cyprus. The White “House said the Bush-Turkmen talks cdwelt on the need for NATO allies -to continue efforts to enhance their *.defense posture. : - “Standing in for Reagan again to- _ day, Bush is scheduled to preside }. over a Cabinet council meeting on natural resources and the environ- , ment. Bush today also was to receive » Eduardo Fernandez, secretary gen- _{-eral of the Social Christian Party of ‘‘ Venezuela and will meet with Paul: Lusaka, the U.N. ambassador from ‘Zambia. 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4  *, ic, 8-20-79) . - Suspect Got Idea Some Time Ago, Investigators Say By PHILIP TAUBMAN Special to The New York Tunes WASHINGTON, April 1 — John W. Hinckley Jr., accused of shooting Presi- gent Reagan, underwent psychiatric examination today as Federal investiga- tors collected more evidence that they ‘said suggested he had been planning for ome time to attack the President. Investigators have found itineraries for ‘Presidential trips in Mr. Hinckley’s be- Yongings, according to Federal officials familiar with the investigation. They have also recovered newspaper articles, photographs and other material about as- sassinations in his hotel room here and in ; his family’s home outside Denver. . Monday afternoon, according to inves- tigators, Mr. Hinckley drafted a letter to the actress Jodie Foster in which he dis- cussed his plan to attack the President. It was recovered later, unmailed, in his hotel room here. ‘I Would Abandon Idea’ ‘ The page-and-a-half letter, hand-writ- |; ten on lined paper, was dated 12:45 P.M., March 30, just an hour-and 45 minutes be- fore the President was shot. Beginning “Dear Jodie,” Mr. Hinckley wrote, “There isa definite possibility that.I will]. be killed in my attempt to get Reagan.” . He added, “I would abandon this idea jof getting Reagan in a second if I could jonly win your heart.” Mr. Hinckley also | wrote, ‘‘Give me the chance with this his- torical deed to gain your respect and love.’? And he signed the letter, “I love you forever.’ . investigators believe that Mr. Hinck- ley developed a romantic fantasy about Miss Foster after seeing the movie “Taxi Driver" in which she played the role of a teen-age prostitute. . Miss Foster has said she never met Mr. Hinckley. ; No evidence has been recovered, offi- cials said, that would indicate that Mr. Hinckley stalked Mr. Reagan on any of the President’s travels since he took of- fice in January. Mr. Reagan has visited California and New York City and has made a state visit to Canada. Investigators say they believe that, based on current evidence, that Mr. Hinckley traveled to Washington Sunday | with general, relatively unformed plans « to attack the President. . i They say they believe that Mr. Hinck- ley first learned that Mr. Reagan would make a Monday afternoon appearance at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the attack took place, when he read newspa- pers Monday morning. . HW 54952 DoclId:32969491 Page In tracing Mr. Hinckley’s recent move- ments, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation say that they have found evidence that suggests his planning for an attack moved into an active phase early last weék. At that time, Mr. Hinckley checked out of the motel in Denver where he had been staying and began the brought him to Washington on Sunday. On March 2, Mr. Hinckley traveled by air from Denver to Los Angeles. After staying overnight, he boarded a Grey- hound bus for Washington. Investigators i say they believe that Mr. Hinckley may | have gone to Los Angeles, where he once resided, to pick up the .22-caliber pistol / he is accused of using to shoot the Presi- nt. Justice Department officials said that Mr. Hinckley’s travels were apparently indirectly financed by his parents, who had been supporting him in recent months. ~ They said that there was still no evi- dence to suggest that Mr. Hinckley con- spired with anyone to assassinate the President. ‘‘It still looks like a one-man job,” one Justice Department official ' Said. , ’ ‘ The idea of attacking the President ap- pears to-have been in Mr. Hinckley’s mind for at least several months, sources familiar with the investigation said. They said he might have first had the idea while Jimmy Carter was President. Photographs of Oswald Found | Mr. Hinckley, they said, was collecting i| material on assassinations weeks before he left Denver on March 25, Included in his belongings in Denver were photo- graphs of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assas- sin of President Kennedy, and newspaper and magazine. articles.about-Mr.-Kenne- - dy’s death. . Similar material was found in Mr. Hinckley’s room at the Park Central Hote] here. He checked into the hotel on Sunday. Officiais did not disclose\‘where Mr. ' Hinckley kept itineraries for President Reagan’s travels. That evidence included schedules published in newspapers and published accounts of the President’s visits outside Washington. Investigators say they believe that Mr. Hinckley had developed a romantic fan- tasy for Miss Foster. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected several romantic letters zand notes that he wrote and mailed to Miss Foster. ~ Mr. Hinckiey, who was held in custody today at the Marine Corps prison at Quantico, Va., was interviewed for three hours by a court-appointed psychiatrist. Dr. James L. Evans, a part-time foren- sic psychiatrist for the District of Colum- , bia, interviewed the suspect to determine ; whether he was competent to stand trial. Dr. Evans’s findings will be submitted to the Federal District Court here. Fed- eral Magistrate Arthur L. Barnett, at a brief hearing today, agreed with the Gov- ernment’s suggestion that the report be kept secret, for a while at least. 54 i what the charge is and , what the jury and Exec AD Inv. Exec AD Adm. __ Exec AD LES ___ Knowledge of Charge a Factor Although officials would not disclose the questions posed to Mr. Hinckley, they said that typically an examining psychia- | 4, trist asks whether the suspect knows ell. the suspect's lawyers will expect. In addi- tion, they said, 3 doctor seeks to deter- mine if the suspect has the capacity to discuss the charges. : Mr. Hinckley is scheduled to appear tomorrow morning at the Federal court- house here before Magistrate Lawrence S. Margolis, who will determine whether his continued detention is warranted. For the last two days, F.B.1. agents in California have searching for traces of Mr. Hinckley in a seedy section of Holly- wood, where he rented a small studio apartment on the third floor of Howard’s |. Weekly Apartments on El Centro Street in the spring or early summer of 1976, Mr. Hinckley was last in California on March 26, four days before President Reagan was shot. . ‘ On March 25, be took Western Airlines Flight 45 from Denver to Salt Lake City, then changed to Western flight 257 and continued on Los Angeles. On March 26, he boarded a Greyhound bus in Hollywood to begin the three-day trip to Washington. He changed to an- other bus in downtown Los Angeles that was headed for Pittsburgh, then changed to another bus for the final leg of the trip. Federal investigators have surmised- that Mr. Hinckley may have gone to Cali- fornia to pick up the weapons that were found in his possession in Washington and that he chose to trave] to east by bus rather than plane so that he could avoid ggage inspection. -He.had.been arrested -at-the-airport-in Nashville in October for illegal posses- sion of two .22-caliber revolvers and a .38 and, although he was released after post- ing a bond of $50 and paying court costs of $12.50, his weapons were confiscated. 4 Acet, Dir.: m. Servs. im. Inv. boratory gal Coun. ___ an. & Insp. —_ c. Mgnt. ch. Servs. __ aining = lic Affs. Off. _ rphone Rm. rctor’s Sec’y — The Washington Post _—___{_["__- Washington Star-News Daily News (New York) The New York Times ed The Wall Street Journal ——___ The Atlanta Constitution The Los Angeles Times 2 ANP Na i ‘ as ed fh fy | > { Siske 2 ae: -8 FBI/O0s