Chapter 957: Reagan is Assassinated

"The new American president, Ronald Wilson Reagan, has been assassinated!'

This was the headline on the front page of the Storm Daily.

The headline was not just sensational, whoever saw it would want to know the details.

Therefore, even after a temporary revision, starting at 4:00 a.m., the Jiuding Printing Factory deployed printing lines from all over the country to print frantically, but the 'Wind and Cloud Daily' was still sold out, and the phone calls for restocking at sales outlets all over the country never stopped.

Who would have thought that at this time, the entire Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, and other places only had the 'Wind and Cloud Daily' reporting this news?

Exclusive breaking news means hot sales!

Early in the morning, Xia Yuchen got the newspaper after his morning exercise and saw the headline of 'Wind and Cloud Daily'.

As for the special news from Jiuding News Agency, it was already late at night when it arrived, which was precisely the time when a person was sleeping the deepest. Yan Wenhan did not dare to disturb Xia Yu's rest, so he asked the delivery person to put it in Xia's mailbox together with the newspaper in the morning.

So what was now on Xia Yu's desk was the current issue of the Fengyun Daily newspaper and the special news from the Jiuding News Agency.

Xia Yu glanced at the headline of the newspaper, then immediately opened the envelope, took out the detailed news, and read it carefully.

The source of the news was a reporter from the Jiuding News Agency's Washington District office and a reporter from USA Today.

After work on the afternoon of April 1st, New York time.

The new US President Ronald Reagan went to the University of the District of Columbia with the US Secretary of Education Terrell Bell, White House press secretary James Brady and bodyguards to give a speech and to announce a new education reform policy developed by the government.

The speech ended at around 3:20 pm.

Ronald Reagan and the others then prepared to leave.

As soon as they had left the school gate, they were shot.

The perpetrator fired six shots in 1.8 seconds.

Among them was Joseph De La Bella, the president of the University of the District of Columbia, who was escorting Ronald Reagan. He was shot in the heart and fell to the ground, dead.

White House press secretary James Brady was shot in the head and was seriously injured and rushed to hospital for rescue.

US Secretary of Education Terrell Bell was shot in the thigh, fortunately without injuring the bone and the aorta.

Ronald Reagan's bodyguard covered him at the first opportunity and took a bullet for him, also dying instantly from the chest wound.

Ronald Reagan himself was covered by another bodyguard and luckily was not injured.

As for the assassin, he was shot and captured alive by secret agents in the crowd and was secretly taken away for protection and interrogation.

As for more detailed information, such as the assassin's information, the motive for the crime, information about the firearms, and the real situation behind each of the injured, it has not yet been released.

However, the reporters from the Jiuding News Agency are already following it closely.

Xia Yu could easily imagine that Washington was now the centre of the storm in the entire United States, and the American public was in an uproar.

After all, Ronald Reagan had been elected president with an overwhelming victory, and the hopes of the American people were pinned on him.

And since the KND had been killed off before, the American public was already very sensitive to this type of incident. Now that the president had been shot, how could the American public not pay attention?

As for the US government, especially the intelligence and security departments, the pressure is even greater, wanting to solve the case as soon as possible and give the president and the people a proper explanation.

Thinking that it is now just after 7am Hong Kong time, it should be around 7 or 8pm in Washington, DC.

Xia Yu first called Rhodes Saxon via satellite phone and asked him to find a way to get the phone number of Ronald Reagan's current location.

When Rhodes Saxon called back with the number, Xia Yu dialled it.

After about 20 seconds, the phone was answered.

'Mr Reagan, good evening, this is your good friend Xia Yu.'

'It's just 7:30am here, I woke up and heard about what happened to you. I'm glad you're safe and sound...'

'...You don't need to say thank you, it's because you were vigilant enough that I was able to warn you, otherwise it would have been useless no matter how much I warned you.'

'…Okay, then rest well. This is my personal phone number, call me if you need anything. Goodbye!'

Ten minutes later, Xia Yu hung up the phone, shaking his head in amazement at the vagaries of fate, before a smile crept onto his lips.

During the conversation, Ronald Reagan had thanked Xia Yu more than once, and even though they were half a world apart and only communicating over the phone, Xia Yu could still hear the sincerity and lingering fear in Ronald Reagan's tone.

It can be said that the assassination attempt today really scared Ronald Reagan.

If it wasn't for his bodyguard who took the bullet for him, then he would have been shot and the probability of death would have been particularly high.

Generally speaking, when the president appears in public, it is mainly the secret agents who eliminate the risks in advance. Even if there is a personal security guard, they will not get too close.

Historically, when Ronald Reagan was assassinated in front of the Hilton Hotel, the security guards were a little apart. When Ronald Reagan passed through the crowd, he was shot and almost died from the gunshot.

I just didn't expect that in this life, after being incited by Xia Yu's butterfly wings, Ronald Reagan did not go to the Hilton Hotel to meet with the heads of the trade union groups, but was shot at a different time when he was leaving the University of the District of Columbia.

However, Xia Yu recalled the news released in his past life, which revealed that the murderer had bought a pistol in November 1980, after Ronald Reagan was elected, planning to assassinate Reagan.

It is indeed difficult to change something that has been planned in advance. The murderer's target was a person with the status of president, and his goal was to attract the attention of a woman he secretly loved, so it was difficult to influence him.

Of course, no one can say for sure whether this was the truth or not, or whether it was something else. Even if the facts are impeccable, who can guarantee that it wasn't something carefully planned?

Therefore, Xia Yu simply treated the news he learned about in his past life as just gossip.

In short, in this life, as long as Ronald Reagan escaped this disaster, Xia Yu's hard work in the United States would not have been in vain.

...

That evening, all the evening papers scrambled to report the news.

But the Jiuding News Group newspapers still stood out.

There was nothing they could do about it, because no other newspaper had established reporting channels in the United States. Even though many newspapers had purchased the services of the Jiuding News Agency, the Jiuding News Group newspapers always had slightly different news.

And because the media outlets that have purchased the news services of the Jiu Ding News Agency also have to write that the news comes from the Jiu Ding News Agency, users have long since understood the secret. For the same price, they naturally choose the newspapers of the Jiu Ding News Agency, which are from the same family as the Jiu Ding News Agency.

Saturday, April 3, the sky was clear and it was a good day to go out.

Although the follow-up reports on the assassination of Ronald Reagan dominated the public opinion on this day,

However, the news about the official opening of the Kowloon Cultural Museum was still very popular.

That morning, the Kowloon Cultural Museum was packed with people, and the waiting citizens crowded onto the roadside, causing traffic jams in Kwun Tong District.

Before the opening, Xia Yu made a personal appearance, as did Murray MacLehose. Many big shots in Hong Kong were also present to celebrate the opening of the Kowloon Cultural Museum.

With so many big shots arriving, if anything happened, Hong Kong would tremble.

Xia Yu therefore mobilised all the spare resources of Aegis Security to work with the Hong Kong Police Force to ensure security at the scene.

There were also very strict requirements for admission. Outside the main entrance, there were 20 entrances surrounded by fences. Tickets were issued according to the actual situation in the museum, and the tickets were even double tickets. Not only did the tickets have a unique number, but the name of the ticket holder had to be registered for each ticket.

Although this increased the workload, it also deterred the petty thoughts of some people, and the advantage was safety.

That said, the scene was packed with people, and Xia Yu suspected that the museum would have been overwhelmed if the number of people entering had not been controlled.

Although the limited flow of people made many people wait and curse, and even made a trip for nothing, he couldn't care less. Visitors could only blame themselves for arriving too late.

When the museum closed that evening, the staff counted that a total of 11,231 people had entered the Kowloon Cultural Museum in one day.

During the day and evening, Global TV gave extensive coverage to the opening of the Kowloon Culture Museum.

The real situation at the Kowloon Culture Museum also began to spread through the more than 10,000 people who entered.

The results of the Global TV reporter's interview showed that apart from the difficulty in entering the museum, which caused people to complain, everything in the museum left the citizens who entered very satisfied and impressed.

In short, the Kowloon Culture Museum was an instant hit!