Washington (“Hinckley”) Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, 2023.
All of the pixels, none of the assassination attempts, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796
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Washington (“Hinckley”) Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, 2023.
All of the pixels, none of the assassination attempts, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796
#photography
The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It’s notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.
It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.
Part of a forthcoming series on “Hiltons that have been the sites of prominent assassinations or assassination attempts”.
@[email protected] That’d make a good coffee table book and I know of at least 2 customers for it
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What about a series about political suicides that have taken place at The Four Seasons? :D
@[email protected] lol, I was thinking about exactly this last night. Please actually do it :)
@[email protected] snorts
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My wife went to college at George Washington in DC and apparently they all referred to it as the Hinckley Hilton.
@ian Yeah. You can get in a taxi and ask to be taken there and they’ll know which Hilton you mean.