The exact location where John Hinckley Jr. shot then President Ronald Reagan on March 30th, 1981. The curved wall which served as the backdrop obscured by trucks in this image, the attempt happened just after President Reagan gave a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel. He suffered a punctured lung and became the first US [...]

People line up to go inside Ford’s Theater, where John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln with a fatal gun shot to the head. Lincoln was watching a performance of My American Cousin with his wife, on April 14, 1865. He died later that night, in the morning hours of April 15, 1865 in a building [...]

This shot of the White House is the only really distinct view of the building on Google Street View that we could find.