A 1913 photo of the John E Reagan family taken in Tampico, Illinois. From left are: John Reagan, his sons Neil and Ronald, and his wife Nellie Wilson Reagan. Photograph: AP
Special report: United States
Actor Ronald Reagan loads his gun in the 1953 western film Law and Order, in which Reagan plays a retired US marshall who can't hang up his holster. Photograph: AP/Universal
Leader: A rose-tinted president
Ronald Reagan in a cigarette advertisement.
Reagan is hurried into a limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside the Washington Hilton hotel on March 30 1981. He joked to his wife Nancy after the assassination attempt by John Hinckley: "Honey, I forgot to duck." Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP
President Ronald Reagan cuts in on singer Frank Sinatra, who dances with first lady Nancy Reagan during a party in the East Room of the White House on February 6 1981. Photograph: Mike Evans/AP/White House
Gaffe-prone warrior who saw off Soviet Union
Reagan, with his newly-named Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, defends the use of US troops in Grenada during a November 1983 press conference at the White House. Photograph: Barry Thumma/AP
President Ronald Reagan, appearing at the White House News Photographers Association's annual dinner in Washington on May 19 1986, placed his thumbs to his ears and wiggled his fingers at the photographers saying: "I've been waiting for years to do this." It was not clear if the president knew it was being carried live by C-Span, a cable television service. Photograph: AP/C-Span
Obituary: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan gives a thumbs up sign on June 12 1987 after a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. Applauding Reagan are the West German chancellor Helmut Kohl, right, and the West German parliament president, Philip Jenninger, left. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP
Reagan stands with prime minister Margaret Thatcher outside 10 Downing Street on June 2 1988. Photograph: Martyn Hayhow/Reuters
Nancy and Ronald Reagan pose for a photograph with the then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa at the Reagans' ranch west of Santa Barbara, California. Photograph: Steve Malone/Santa Barbara News Press/AP
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, in 1992 on the couple's 40th wedding anniversary. Photograph: Merrett T Smith/AP
The ex-president waves goodbye to the crowd that assembled to watch him depart through the museum courtyard during a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in July 1997. Photograph: Mike Guastella/AP
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