Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weak, incoherent minds, the yearning antiself rises up and breaks through a wall into actuality. That seems to have happened with John W. Hinckley Jr., the young man who shot Ronald Reagan last year. Since no strong self disciplined his vagrant aches and needs, it was his antiself that pulled the trigger. It was his nonentity. The antiself is a monster sometimes, a cancer, a gnawing hypothesis...
...story. If poor John Hinckley Jr. [May 24] had lived in an earlier age, he might have run off to sea, joined the Foreign Legion or emigrated to distant shores. After a while he might have found himself. Unfortunately, hardly a frontier remains for these mixed-up kids who believe themselves to be misfits...
...amazed that the prosecutor in John Hinckley's trial is trying to prove that Hinckley is sane. The only question is, did he commit a crime? A person's state of mind should not determine his guilt or innocence...
...Marjorie LeMay, associate professor of Radiology, testified recently that scans of Hinckley's brain suggest strongly that he is schizophrenic. LeMay said the CAT scan of Hinckley's brain showed it to be shrunken to an unusual degree for someone his age. The brain abnormality, she added, is found in only two percent of the normal population, but in about one-third of all schizophrenics...
Dietz and LeMay's testimony followed the testimony three weeks ago of David M Bear, assistant professor of Psychiatry, who said that Hinckley was suffering from schizophrenia. Bear testified for the defense, arguing that Hinckley was not fully responsible for the alleged shooting because his mental disorders had cut him off from reality...