CBS: Secret Service Agent Who Saved Ronald Reagan’s Life Dies at 85

MASON: “The secret service agent credited with saving President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981 is being mourned today. Jerry Parr died of congestive heart failure on Friday. He was 85 years old. Parr was the agent who shoved Mr. Reagan into the back of the presidential limousine and ordered the car to the hospital, during the assassination attempt. He was not supposed to be there. But that decision may have saved Reagan’s life. 2012 Bob Schieffer talked to Parr, for Sunday morning, about that day.”
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PARR: “The first shot, the first thing you see, the first yell, the first scream, the first violence, you’ve going to action. Cover, cover and evacuate, cover and evacuate. Get — get — get it embedded in your head. It is a muscle memory.”
SCHIEFFER: “At that point. And you were operating on more than —“ [crosstalk]
PARR: “It — it wasn’t the —“
SCHIEFFER: “— than training. It was instinct.”
PARR: “Yeah. Instinct, intuition, a combination of both maybe. And all of training, and all the fact that I — I wasn’t afraid of him, to handle his body like that. In another words, I think, when you are a young agent you are reluctant to do anything [indecipherable] with him. But I wasn’t. And so, it just happened to be that day for me. I didn’t — I hope that it never come because of what happened with Kennedy. 
MASON (voice-over): “Former first lady Nancy Reagan issued a statement saying Jerry Parr was one of her heroes. She says without Parr her husband would have been killed by the assassin’s bullet.”