It is no wonder that he and my husband got along so well." “He was humble but strong, reserved but confident, and blessed with a great sense of humor. "Jerry was not only one of the finest Secret Service agents to ever serve this country, but one of the most decent human beings I've ever known,” she said. “It is no wonder that he and my husband got along so well.Nancy Reagan told CNN on Friday that if Parr had not been looking out for her husband she would “have certainly lost my best friend and roommate to an assassin's bullet." Parr “was humble but strong, reserved but confident, and blessed with a great sense of humor,” Nancy Reagan said in her statement. He told the driver to head for George Washington University Hospital. Then he noticed bright red blood on Reagan’s lips, which his Secret Service medical training told him must have come from the president’s lungs. Parr ran his hands over Reagan’s body, but found no injury. “If you were running track, you would not turn and look at the starter,” he said. Parr called this his “counter-instinctive behavior.” In a photograph taken an instant after Hinckley fired his 22-caliber handgun outside the hotel, Parr and Reagan are visible over the top of the presidential limousine.Īs the president turns to look for his attacker, Parr gazes directly into the bulletproof limousine. More than 40 years later, the actor became president and Parr was thrust briefly into the Hollywood-like role of American hero. Brass Bancroft in the film “Code of the Secret Service.” 16, 1930, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parr grew up in Miami, where he watched Reagan as Lt. “Without Jerry looking out for Ronnie on March 30, 1981, I would have certainly lost my best friend and roommate to an assassin’s bullet.”īorn Sept. “Jerry Parr was one of my true heroes,” Nancy Reagan said in a statement Friday. One bullet ricocheted off the limousine and hit the president.
fired six shots outside the Washington Hilton. Parr was chief of the Secret Service detail when John Hinckley Jr. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his wife, Carolyn. Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who shoved President Ronald Reagan into the back of the presidential limousine and ordered the car to the hospital during the 1981 assassination attempt, died Friday at a hospice in Washington.
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