Ronald Reagan secret service tape released!

Ronald Reagan is back in the media!

An audiotape from Ronald’s secret service detail during his attempted assassination has been released.

The 10-minute recording from March 30, 1981 lifts the lid on the chaotic aftermath when neither the president nor his agents realized he’d been shot.

Agents at the scene are heard telling the Secret Service command post that shots were fired and people were injured but “Rawhide’s all right” and was being rushed back to the security of the White House. Rawhide was Reagan’s Secret Service code name.

“Let’s hustle,” agent Jerry Parr is heard barking as Reagan’s limousine suddenly changed course, the sight of the president’s blood signaling there was more wrong with him than a bruised rib or two, as everyone thought right after the March 30, 1981, attack. The car, which had been spiriting Reagan back to the security of the White House after the spray of gunfire, sped to George Washington University Hospital instead. Reagan lost about half his blood and came closer to death that day than Americans realized for years later.

The Secret Service released the tape Friday in response to a public records request by Del Wilber, author of a book out next week on the shooting.