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...President almost died from a wound no one knew he had in all that chaos. It was 19 years ago. The President was my father. The young blond man was John Hinckley, who believed that if he shot the President, he and Jodie Foster would be forever united in heaven. Months later, a jury found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity, and he has spent the past 18 years locked inside St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. The Secret Service has never stopped monitoring him. They show up whenever they want to observe...
...hard to see why people would have serious reservations about letting John Hinckley wander freely through the Washington, D.C., suburbs. This is the man, after all, who shot four men, including President Ronald Reagan, outside a Hilton hotel in 1981, in a desperate cry for attention from the object of his obsession at the time, actress Jodie Foster. While no one has quite figured out how Hinckley established a causative connection between Reagan's death and Foster's affections, doctors report there have been significant breakthroughs during the would-be assassin's 18-year incarceration in the psychiatric ward...
...ready? Many think not, including the U.S. attorney's District of Columbia office, which on Tuesday called for a federal court hearing over the proposal. When Hinckley was tried for his actions in 1981, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. This means, of course, that his ultimate freedom depends on doctors' assessment of his mental health. In this week's TIME magazine, Reagan's daughter Patti Davis published a plea to keep Hinckley in custody, saying "I believe [he] knew full well what evil is; I believe he was drawn to it, excited by it. I believe...
...JOHN HINCKLEY Feds will allow him free time from the asylum--but only supervised day trips...
...Hinckley puts it another way. "We're celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers," he says. "From that pioneer beginning, in this desert valley where a plow had never before broken the soil, to what you see today...this is a story of success." It would be unwise to bet against more of the same...