It was on March 30, 1981, and Tim McCarthy approached what he called a very ordinary day, was appointed with the details of the secret service that guarded President Ronald Reagan.
McCarthy, who now lives in Orland Park where the police chief died from 1994 to 2022, recounted his story in a secret interview with the few seconds that left himself, the president and other wounded in an assassination attempt.
The interview is published in SecretService.gov and on YouTube Service Service. I was conducted with McCarthy at the Chicago office in Chicago for the Secret Service by Anthony Julilmi, the head of the agency’s communications.
A spokesman for the secret service said that the publication of the interview was not an attempt to exhaust the agency’s image in light of the increasing scrutiny since an attempt by Donald Trump last summer while he was carrying out a campaign for him, and he won in the end.
He said it is part of a series called “behind the shadows” that highlights the work of the secret service employees and was in a short state of stopping.
The agency’s director, after July 13, stepped down in Trump’s life in Bater, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Crocs was shot after being released at Trump during the assembly, and the secret service indicated in its final evaluation of the assassination attempt, to “multiple operating gaps and contacts.”
The agency said in its report last fall.
The policy also affected the agency. Earlier this month, Trump said he would immediately finish the details of protecting the secret service for adult children from Democrat Joe Biden.
Last January, the vision of immigration agents trying to enter an elementary school on the southwestern side of Chicago, secret service agents looking for threat.
Julielmi told the Chicago Tribune that their officers were investigating a threat against “protection” regarding Tiktok.
“Very normal day”
McCarthy, 32, was at the time, with the secret service for nine years when John Hinkeli Junior opened the fire while Reagan left the Washington Hotel.
The president had addressed the AFL-CIO, speaking at Washington Hilton.
“It has started a very normal day,” McCarthy, 75, said in the interview.
McCarthy said that Reagan’s speech was well received, and he got out of the hotel at about 2:30 pm, “I saw nothing outside the ordinary.”
McCarthy said the standard protocols, including the side rear door of the passengers, were followed to open the president’s limousine.
In a previous interview with the Daily South Town, McCarthy said that the other president had not been notified that the president will walk shortly for a “rope line” that separates the president and the protectors of the crowd.
“Everyone screams” the president, “and of course you are on pins and needles.
“Will the president go to the crowd or not?” McCarthy said in the last interview.
The shooting explodes
He said that Hinkeli, the armed with a 22 -caliber pistol, was on his left, then pushed forward through the crowd and “got rid of six rounds in about 1.6 seconds.”
Jim Brady, the president’s press secretary, was the first to shoot, then Washington police officer Thomas Delmante.
McCarthy was shown in the right chest by the third bullet after he placed himself between the shooter and the president, and a fifth shot dancer from a Limousine and the Reagan beating under the arm, moments after the company’s secret service agent withdrew the president inside the car.
Barr, who died in 2015 due to congestive heart failure in 85 years, suggested in a previous interview that if McCarthy did not stop the course of that third round of the Henkel -Akli rifle, Reagan’s wounds could have been more dangerous.
“If there is no (Tim), I am sure that I or the president has been injured on that day,” he said. “The only thing between the president and this man is the great Irish McCarthy body.”
McCarthy was on the ground after beating him and quickly carrying the president.
Reagan was shot, but the wound did not notice until he began to cough blood, and he was transferred to George Washington University Hospital, according to the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. McCarthy was transferred to the same hospital.
Training instead of courage
In many interviews over the years, McCarthy reduced the idea that courage had a great relationship with his actions. It is attributed to the training received by the agent, dug through repetition and simulation of response to the threat or attack.
“What I did on that day was only dependent on training,” McCarthy, 75, said in the secret service interview.
McCarthy said he had returned to the presidential preventive details three months after his injury.
“It was a little comfortable to start,” he said.
He worked eight years with the Presidential Protection Department of Secret Service, as well as Reagan was also part of the preventive details of President Jimmy Carter and George E. Bush. McCarthy spent 14 years as a criminal investigator in the secret service.
In the interview with Guglielmi, McCarthy said he had never regretted joining the secret service, but he joked that he hopes to reduce this on March 30.
McCarthy said in the interview: “The secret service gave me a lot of terrible, no ways on this topic,” McCarthy said in the interview.
McCarthy retired from the Secret Service in October 1993 in his capacity as the private agent responsible for the field office in Chicago, and he was appointed in Orland Park the next May.
During his time at the head of the Orland Park division, McCarthy worked to establish and lead the Labor Squad in the south of the Greater Crime, which helps departments in the field of investigations in killing, and was also the agent of the Orland Park village for a period of time.
In 2016, he was awarded the First Police Chief Award from the Illinois Association for Police Presidents. or
Retirement, then no
Despite McCarthy’s retirement on August 1, 2020, as President of the Orland Park, this was not the end of his law in law. In 2024, the Orland Park Police Station was named.
In November 2020, he was brought as head of the interim police at Mokena, and he remained until a substitute was brought in May 2021.
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McCarthy said he continued to communicate with President and Nancy Reagan, and to exchange phone calls, cards and cross messages. McCarthy said that he and his wife visited Nancy Reagan twice in California with the deterioration of the president’s health, and both attended the funerals of the President and Nancy Reagan.
Henkli was twenty -five years old at the time he was shot on Reagan, but he was extracted from any charges because of madness.
He lived under the supervision of mental health facilities for 35 years, then he obtained an unconditional launch from the court’s supervision in June 2022.