The Reagan Era Images

President Ronald Reagan gives a speech standing before a dozen American flags.

Ronald Reagan on horseback during a presidential vacation at his California ranch.

Secret Service agents respond to the 1981 assassination attempt against President Reagan.

U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North, a key plotter in the Iran-Contra Affair, is sworn in to testify before Congress.

American soldiers arrest young supporters of Grenada's Marxist New Jewel Movement during the 1983 U.S. invasion of the tiny Caribbean island nation.

The development of the MX Missile, a powerful new vehicle for the delivery of multiple nuclear warheads, fueled a new Soviet-American arms race during the 1980s.