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...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...
Through the first two weeks of his trial for the shooting of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr., 26, was a model of calm, impassive silence. That self-control was shattered last week when the jury was shown the videotaped testimony of Jodie Foster, 19, the actress turned college student whose 1976 film Taxi Driver sparked Hinckley's obsession with her and, according to his lawyers, drove him to shoot the President.* Hinckley, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, fidgeted throughout her testimony until Foster was asked, "How would you describe your...
...Hinckley's agitation was in especially sharp contrast to his icy calm only hours earlier when his father, John Hinckley Sr., who founded a Denver-based oil and gas exploration firm, broke down on the witness stand. The elder Hinckley described an agonizing meeting with his "wiped out" prodigal son at the Denver airport just three weeks before the shooting. John Sr. said that on advice from the family psychiatrist he refused to let his son come home and suggested he stay at the Y.M.C.A. When John said he did not want to do that, his father told...
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...