Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution contends that Hinckley, who is charged with trying to kill the President and three others, was sane and responsible for his act. The crime, declared Chief Prosecutor Roger Adelman in his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men, was "a deliberate, planned, premeditated, indeed a calculated attack." In his presentation, Defense Attorney Vincent Fuller told the jury that "the basic underlying facts of the tragic events are not in dispute." The case for the defense: Hinckley was legally insane at the time of the shootings and could not understand or control his actions. Said Fuller...
...Hinckley sat, pale and hunched, displaying no emotion, as the prosecution showed an NBC videotape of the shootings outside the Washington Hilton Hotel and questioned witnesses of the attack, including two of the victims, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. The prosecution also showed a startling ABC videotape of President Jimmy Carter campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 2,1980. While Carter shook hands in a crowd, Hinckley's face appeared, bobbing up and down, in and out of focus, only six feet away from the President. A week later Hinckley...
...remains to be seen whether evidence collected after the shooting by FBI agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley...
...defense will undoubtedly use a number of Hinckley's rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
According to his attorney, Hinckley was a lonely, timid child who became increasingly withdrawn as he grew up and finally retreated into a world of fantasies. Hinckley dropped in and out of college, went to Hollywood seeking instant success as a songwriter, created a mythical group called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket...