Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Hinckley, on trial for shooting Reagan, saw himself...
...poetic self-indictment was among the assorted scribblings that FBI agents found in a hotel room rented by John W. Hinckley Jr., 26, the day before his attempted assassination of President Reagan on March 30, 1981. The agents also seized a paperback book called The Fox Is Crazy Too, about a master criminal who used an insanity defense to escape conviction. "Was he crazy or just pretending?" asked a blurb on the book's cover. "Was he sane or just pretending?" That is the central issue in Hinckley's trial, which got under way in a federal district...
...year's attacks on world leaders came with almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades...
...very picture of the political order; John Paul in his papal robes of immaculate white; Sadat, the erect warrior, in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity...
Despite skepticism in many quarters about the very existence of a hit-team plot, the White House was taking no chances. Security around the President, which had been notably increased since the assassination attempt by John Hinckley last March, was strengthened still more. Air Force One, for example, was equipped with sophisticated electronic gear that would allow its pilot to evade a missile attack, and Reagan sometimes rode in unmarked cars instead of his official limousine. At other times, presidential motorcades featured two similar limousines, both with flags flying...