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Washington (“Hinckley”) Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, 2023.
All of the pixels, none of the assassination attempts, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796
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The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It’s notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.
It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.
Part of a forthcoming series on “Hiltons that have been the sites of prominent assassinations or assassination attempts”.
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@mattblaze@federate.social That’d make a good coffee table book and I know of at least 2 customers for it
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What about a series about political suicides that have taken place at The Four Seasons? :D
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@mattblaze@federate.social lol, I was thinking about exactly this last night. Please actually do it :)
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My wife went to college at George Washington in DC and apparently they all referred to it as the Hinckley Hilton.
@ian Yeah. You can get in a taxi and ask to be taken there and they’ll know which Hilton you mean.
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I remember the Washington Star newspaper, a competitor to The Post, printed The President’s Daily Schedule every day. I seem to recall Hinkley referred to that schedule to find out where and when Reagan would be on the fateful day, and that that’s how Hinkley wound up outside the Hilton. (The Star discontinued printing the daily schedule after the shooting.)