Excellent account here by Howard Wolinsky of 27 years at the Sun-Times:
It was around 11:30am March 30, 1981. I was having an early lunch at Ricardo’s, a Chicago press corps hangout, with my new boss, Alan Mutter, the city editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. I was the new medical writer at the “the Bright One.”
As we were getting acquainted, we caught a news bulletin on the radio: President Reagan had been shot.
Lunch was over. We ran back to the Sun-Times. Alan and the other editors began sending out reporters around the country to cover the story. I started working on my first story for the paper I grew up reading.
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And there’s more more more . . .
Blithe Spirit 