Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a week Hinckley had surfaced in Denver, where he applied for jobs at two newspapers, claiming to one that he had just finished a month of classes at Yale. A few weeks later, in a Denver suburb, he at tended two meetings of the right-wing National Association for Constitutional Government. In December, the FBI suspects, Hinckley visited Washington, but in January he was back in the Denver area, where, on Reagan's first full day in office, Hinckley bought a .38-cal. revolv - er. In February he returned to New Haven a third time, and then perhaps...
...first of March, Hinckley was again in New Haven; he delivered more missives to Foster. Back in Denver a week later, he checked into a shabby motel...
...March 25, Hinckley flew to Los Angeles via Salt Lake City, and the next day boarded a bus headed back to Salt Lake City - and on to Washington...
...perhaps the past six months, John Hinckley was under sporadic treat ment by Evergreen Psychiatrist John Hopper. No one but Dr. Hopper may be equipped to sketch a psychiatric profile of Reagan's attacker. But particularly after the release of the final letter that Hinckley wrote to Foster, many psychiatrists have been willing to conjecture...
Harvard Psychiatry Professor Donald Russell believes that Reagan, not Foster, was central to Hinckley's psychology, and several colleagues also doubt the impor tance of the movie-star crush. Says Rus sell: "He was obviously out to get these father figures." Hinckley's eclipse by an elder sibling was critical, says Chicago Psychiatrist Irving Harris. "The young brother tends to be overshadowed. If the man can't find a socially accepted chan nel, he can become an assassin...