James Brady, former White House press secretary and gun control advocate …

President Barack Obama stops by Press Secretary Jay Carney's meeting with James Brady in Carney's West Wing office at the White House, March 30, 2011. Brady was former President Ronald Reagan's press secretary 

James Brady with his wife Sarah on a visit to the White House briefing room named after him. The couple had campaigned to prevent gun violence after the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Photograph: 

IN MARCH 1981, desperate to prove himself worthy of Jody Foster's love, John Hinckley junior tried to kill President Ronald Reagan with a handgun outside a hotel in Washington, DC. Reagan survived, but Mr Hinckley managed to shoot James Brady, then 

WASHINGTON (AP) — James Brady, the White House press secretary gravely wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, died Monday, his family announced. Brady was 73. "We are 

James Brady, the former White House press secretary who became an advocate for gun control after he was paralyzed in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, died Monday at age 73. His death was announced by a family spokeswoman,