
How does one write about a murdering a person where the victim, a U. S. President, lives on for a quarter-century?
If
you are producing a lucrative series of books with a running title like Killing
So-and-so, you find a way of tying that person’s eventual demise to the murder
attempt. That is what Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard did in the case of Ronald
Reagan, who went down in history not as a victim of an assassin’s bullet but instead
Alzheimer’s disease.