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...John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan in 1981, has agreed to pay up to $2.9 million in potential book and movie profits to three others injured in the attack. Lawyers involved in the agreement told the Associated Press today that Hinckley, 39, signed off on the deal from the mental hospital where he has been confined since he was found innocent by reason of insanity. A movie or book deal may come next: Hinckley has said he wanted to kill the president in order to draw attention to his love for actress Jodie Foster. Lawyers said Hinkley would still...
John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. John Hinckley, Jr. And now, apparently, Francisco Martin Duran. Are we witnessing the deevolution of presidential assassins...
...Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd K. Packer, 69, an ardent promoter of doctrinal purity...
...beautiful pop-love song, "Unworthy of Your of Love," is a duet in which John Hinckley declares his devotion to Jodi Foster ("I am unworthy of your love, Jodi darling") while Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme declares hers for Charles Manson...
...defendants in homicides or assaults are acquitted on the ground of mental illness. Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley's plea was accepted, but insanity claims by Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi and mass murderer John Wayne Gacy were rebuffed. Experts predict Dahmer's bid will fail as well. "There is a point at which crimes reach such a magnitude that people don't care why someone did something," observes San Diego criminal attorney John Cotsirilos...