Would-be Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Jr. Released From Oversight

John Hinckley Jr. — the man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981 — has been freed from court oversight.

Forty-one years after John Hinckley Jr. tried to kill the president of the United States, he's now officially a free man.

On March 30, 1981, Hinckley opened fire on President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel. Former ABC White House correspondent Sam Donaldson was there to witness it all.

"As the shots rang out, his lead service agent Jerry Parr and another agent pushed Ronald Reagan into the limousine," Donaldson said. "We know now it was at that point that the sixth shot from Hinckley's gun ricocheted over the door of the limousine and into the president's chest."