Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says a family friend: "There but for the grace of God goes anyone's kid." Beverly McBeath was no friend at Highland Park (Texas) High School, but she speaks for all her schoolmates when she recalls that John Hinckley was "so normal he appeared to fade into the woodwork." Nonetheless, some time in the barren years since his 1973 graduation from high school, Hinckley went beyond mere ordinariness. His solitude and fecklessness became chronic, and he started drifting...
Says one of the motel's maids: "He didn't say much, but he was nice to everyone - just a clean-cut, good-living kid." In his first days in Denver he applied for a job at a record shop and pawned his type writer and electric guitar...
Terry Nelson, director of the John J. Harland Boys Club, which Hill had joined at the age of six, remembers him as "a very vulnerable kid." Says Nelson: "He was afraid of large boys. They would threaten him sometimes, and he would do what they said to do." Two other members of the same boys club were Anthony Carter, 9, whose body was discovered last summer, and Joseph Bell, 16, who dis appeared March...
...accept anyone who can handle the workouts. If a kid does all four strokes and makes an honest attempt for two hours then we will accept them. Usually they realize for themselves if they are in over their heads. We almost never have to cut a swimmer: he or she will ordinarily do that without being told," Gordon says...
...screen in a long time-and her hugely pregnant sister (Hollis McLaren), who is now living with him and spouting flower-child irrelevancies. Dave has in hand a stash of cocaine he has scored off the Mob, which is in hot pursuit. If the drugs, and this rotten kid, represent danger, they also offer opportunity. The coke is fungible: it can be converted into a ticket to France for Sally-the opportunity, finally, to act the big-time operator for Lou, who becomes her mentor and protector...