Even in a year of shocking news events, last night's violent incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was a monumentally surreal experience—a series of loud sounds, the President hustled from the dais by Secret Service, and a ballroom filled with media figures who carefully rose from the floor, then began to report on what they'd just experienced.
For many of the journalists at Saturday's dinner, that meant a race to the White House, where Donald Trump addressed the media just hours after the shooting, everyone still dressed in their red carpet finery. Authorities and journalists are still piecing together the motive behind the act, among other factors. Stay tuned for more as Vanity Fair continues to dig into this case.
