Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Gilligan, another Harvard professor, finds Hinckley's insanity improbable...
more likely in Hinckley's mind was a dis sonant snarl of emotions and delusions, which in concert led him to Washington...
Indeed, any explanation at all can smack of the pat. The consequence of lives like John Hinckley Jr.'s may be to amend a patriotic platitude. Perhaps not every little boy can grow up to be President, but he can, for the price of a pistol, grow up to be a presidential assassin...
Several assassins have conveniently left behind incriminating diaries and letters. Some have also left behind books and clippings of previous assassinations, a reminder that these murders, like hijackings, can break out in mini-epidemics. Who knows? Another awkward loner may today be cutting out articles about John W. Hinckley...
...Secret Service keeps a list of some 25,000 people believed to pose potential threats to the President, and 300 to 400 considered especially dangerous. Yet none of the persons involved in wellknown assassination attempts since 1963 -Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, Sara Jane Moore and John Hinckley-ever appeared on the Secret Service list...