Reagan threatened; man with plastic gun
MIAMI (AP) — Ronald Reagan announced his
Republican presidential candidacy Thursday, and then
encountered a man wielding a toy pistol as he shook
hands after the first rally of his campaign.
Secret Service agents grabbed the man, and hustled
Reagan away, apparently unshaken.
The Secret Service identified the man as Michael
Lance Carvin, 20, of Pompano, Fla.
Agents had been guarding Reagan for only half a
day when the incident occurred at a motel near the
Miami airport.
The man was questioned by agents at the hotel,
then taken to Secret Service headquarters in downtown
Miami, a Reagan spokesman said.
The Secret Service in Washington said what had
appeared to be a weapon was a toy, a plastic replica of a
.45 caliber pistol.
Reagan flew to Miami after formally announcing his
White House candidacy in Washington — the city where,
he said, many of the nation’s woes are being generated
by a federal government that is too big but “powerless to
solve problems anymore.”
That was the theme of his Miami speech to about
400 supporters in the ballroom of the Ramada Inn.
He had just finished and was shaking hands when
the youth pulled what appeared to be a weapon. The
assailant was thrown to the floor by security men and
bystanders.
Reagan was pulled away from the assailant by
Secret Service agents and, in the process, dragged to the
ground momentarily. But he was smiling and did not
appear shaken when agents led him upstairs to a motel
room.
"I feel fine,” he said later at a news conference. “...I
just thought someone had fallen down. It seems the man
pulled out a toy gun."
As he began the active phase of his challenge to
Pres. Ford, Reagan said he will carry his conservative
message “as far and as wide as I can,” seeking to woo
the 40 per cent of the electorate "now disenchanted with
both parties."
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committee that some ingredients in alcoholic
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