Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguing that Hinckley could discern what was real and what was not real, Dietz contradicted the defense testimony of four medical experts, who had said Hinckley had lost touch with reality and was driven by fantasies to shoot the president...
...Park E. Dietz, assistant professor of Psychiatry, testified that the 27-year-old Hinckley did not have schizophrenia or any other serious mental illness when he shot the president...
Dietz added that Hinckley had suffered from four relatively minor and "quite common" mental disorders, but had never been psychotic or "unable to test reality...
Earlier in the week Hinckley's brother Scott, 31, and sister Diane, 29, testified that they had urged their father to have John institutionalized but that he had refused, concerned that it would do more harm than good. Scott, who works with his father, described his brother as a loner and noted that "John was a very emotionless person...
...Hinckley did, however, exhibit considerable emotion on a tape, released as evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach...