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Reagan press secretary and activist James Brady dies at 73

Clip: 8/4/2014 | 8m 58s

Remembering James Brady, Reagan White House press secretary and gun control activist.

James Brady, the White House press secretary who became a gun control activist after being wounded in a Reagan assassination attempt, has died at the age of 73. Judy Woodruff remembers him with another former White House press secretary, Joe Lockhart, as well as writer and Brady biographer Mollie Dickenson.

08/04/2014 | Rating NR

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