The Nation - News from April 12, 1988
A federal judge in Washington ordered presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. to be questioned in a deposition prior to a civil trial arising from the 1981 shooting of President Reagan. U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn approved a motion by lawyers representing White House Press Secretary James S. Brady and two others wounded in the March 30, 1981, shooting to question Hinckley before the case goes to trial. The trial of the multimillion-dollar lawsuits brought by Brady, retired Washington policeman Thomas K. Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy is scheduled to begin April 26.
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