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A questionnaire was administered to a non‐probability sample of 289 persons immediately after the shooting of President Reagan. Interpersonal communication was the primary means of receiving the news about the attempted assassination. Of those interviewed within 2½ hours of the shooting, over three‐fourths were aware of the event. The respondants' daily routine affected their first source of the news, and demographic characteristics were often unrelated to communicative behaviors subsequent to hearing the news and to reactions to the news. The consistency of the findings with studies using similar methodology suggests the need for a more detailed analysis of methodological issues.
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