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John Hinckley was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and grew up in Texas and Colorado. An off-and-on student at Texas Tech University from 1973 to 1980, in 1976 he headed to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a songwriter. His efforts in this direction did not meet with success, and his letters home to his parents were full of tales of misfortune and pleas for money. He also spoke of a girlfriend, one Lynn Collins, who turned out to be a complete fabrication. He returned home to his parents' house in Evergreen, ColoradoEvergreen is a census-designated place located in Jefferson County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 9,216. Geography Evergreen sits at an elevation of 7,220 feet in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 15 miles west of, before the year was out. Over the next few years he developed a pattern of living on his own for a while and then returning home, broke.
After repeated viewings of the movie Taxi DriverTaxi Driver is a 1976 film written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese. Robert De Niro stars as the title character. Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks and Peter Boyle are also featured. Plot summary Travis Bickle (De, in which a disturbed young man (inspired by also aspiring assassin Arthur Herman Bremer) played by Robert DeNiro plots to assassinate a presidential candidate, Hinckley developed an obsession with child actress Jodie FosterAlicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and director. Life and career Foster was born in Los Angeles, California where she attended the exclusive prep school, the Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, before going on to Ya, who played a prostitute in the film. When Foster matriculated at Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, ConnecticutThis article is about the city in Connecticut. See New Haven (disambiguation) for other places of the same name. Harkness Tower, part of the Yale University campus located in downtown New Haven New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut, and is l, for a short time to be nearer to her, slipping poems and messages under her door and repeatedly contacting her by telephoneThe telephone or phone is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. Generally attributed to the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the first was built in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. However, an Italian inventor Anton.
Failing to develop any meaningful contact with Foster, Hinckley developed such plots as hijacking an airplane and committing suicide in front of her in order to gain her attention. Eventually he settled on a scheme to win her over by assassinating the president, on the theory that as a historical figure, he would be her equal. To this end, he trailed then-president Jimmy Carter from state to state, but was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, on a firearms charge. Penniless, he returned home once again, and despite psychiatric treatment for depression, his mental health did not improve. In 1981, he began to target the newly elected president, Ronald Reagan.
Just prior to Hinckley's failed attempt on Reagan's life, he wrote to Foster:
Over the past seven months I've left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint hope that you could develop an interest in me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of times I never had the nerve to simply approach you and introduce myself. [...] the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I cannot wait any longer to impress you.
On March 30, 1981 Hinckley fired a revolver six times at President Reagan, as Reagan left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC after addressing an AFL-CIO conference. Hinckley's shots hit the president in the chest, and wounded Press Secretary James Brady, police officer Thomas Delahanty, and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy. Hinckley did not attempt to flee and was arrested at the scene. Reagan survived his wound after surgery at George Washington University Hospital .
The gun used by Hinckley was a Rohm RG-14 revolver in .22LR caliber, with a 1 7/8 inch barrel. The serial number was L731332.
At the trial in 1982, charged with thirteen offenses, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21. The defense psychiatric reports had found him to be insane while the prosecution reports declared him legally sane.
Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was allowed to leave the hospital for supervised visits to his parents in 1999 and longer unsupervised releases in 2000. These rights were revoked when he was found to have smuggled materials about Foster back into the hospital.
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