Are there full transcripts or video clips of Rob Reiner's remark about the Butler assassination attempt?
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Executive summary
There is no evidence in the reporting provided that a full transcript or video clip exists of "Rob Reiner's remark about the Butler assassination attempt"; none of the supplied sources document Reiner making such a remark or preserve a transcript or clip of it [1] [2]. The available archives cited in the collected reporting focus on John Hinckley Jr., the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt, trial records and FBI audiovisual material — useful search venues but not sources that, in this dataset, record anything attributed to Rob Reiner [2] [3] [4].
1. What the supplied records actually cover — the Hinckley case, not a Reiner quote
The materials assembled in the search results trace John Hinckley Jr.’s obsession with Taxi Driver and Jodie Foster, the March 30, 1981 attempt on President Reagan, and subsequent trial materials and archival collections, including FBI audiovisual holdings and trial transcripts and excerpts, but they do not include any item identified as a Rob Reiner remark or a "Butler assassination" clip [1] [5] [2] [4]. The Ronald Reagan Library’s John Hinckley Jr. collection is explicitly described as videotapes, photographs and negatives compiled by the FBI in the investigation and noted as largely public-domain material except for contemporaneous news footage, which signals where visual records of the 1981 event live — however, the library description in the provided reporting does not list any Reiner-related content [2].
2. Where transcripts and video clips of the 1981 attempt do exist in the record (but not the Reiner remark)
Extant trial documentation and audiovisual footage of the Hinckley attempt and trial proceedings are available in public archives and on trial-history sites: famous-trials.com hosts trial transcript excerpts and points to video of the assassination attempt used during the proceedings [3] [4] [6]. Historical overviews and contemporary reporting also summarize Hinckley’s writings, trial evidence and interviews given by Hinckley after his release, demonstrating that primary-source material about the incident exists and has been cited widely — again, these sources document Hinckley and the Reagan shooting, not a comment by Rob Reiner [7] [8].
3. Attempts to link Rob Reiner to this material in the supplied reporting
One of the supplied items (a tabloid piece) does reference Rob Reiner in a different context — coverage about the Reiner family and unrelated contemporary incidents — but that Daily Mail article does not present or archive a transcript or video of Reiner commenting on a "Butler assassination attempt" and its snippets instead point to other stories about Hinckley and later commentary [9]. A People magazine item in the set similarly focuses on Jodie Foster and memories from the aftermath, and does not furnish a Reiner transcript or clip [10]. In short, the supplied set contains no primary or secondary source that preserves a Reiner remark about any Butler assassination attempt.
4. What can reasonably be concluded and the next practical steps
Given the absence of any such item in the provided reporting, it cannot be asserted from these sources that a full transcript or video clip of Rob Reiner’s alleged remark exists; the reporting simply does not contain or cite one [2] [3] [4]. Reasonable next steps — beyond the limits of these sources — would be to search major broadcast archives, network news transcripts, the Reagan Library’s cataloged audiovisual holdings for related press conferences [2], and trial-archive repositories such as those mirrored on famous-trials.com for any offhand public comments tied to particular events [3] [4]. If a particular date, program, or context for the alleged Reiner remark were known, targeting that record would be essential because the current dataset documents the assassination attempt and trial materials extensively but contains no trace of the specific Reiner quotation in question [1] [5] [6].