This item is a Flight Information Card produced by the 89th Military Airlift Group for use aboard Air Force Two. In addition to information about a flight from Austin, Texas to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, there are notes handwritten by Vice President George H. W. Bush during the flight. These notes record the Vice President’s thoughts after being notified that there had been an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
On March 30, 1981, only nine weeks after President Ronald Reagan took office, he was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. Vice President George Bush scribbled his feelings about the “enormity” of the event on this note pad while onboard a Presidential aircraft. Reagan, Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, and policeman Thomas Delahanty all survived the shooting.
