John Hinckley Jr.
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- Hinckley grew up in University Park. He was an off-and-on student at Texas Tech University from 1974 to 1980 but he ended up dropping out. His efforts were just unsuccessful. He would write to his parents with tales of misfortune and pleas for money. In September 1976, he returned to his parents' home in Evergreen. Since it wasn't working out for him. Hinckley began buying weapons and practicing how to shoot during the 1970s. He was prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers to deal with emotional problems. Which could have caused his motivation for wanting to commit this type of crime. He clearly had no love from anyone and he wasn't doing well financially, or with school even. Something like this could've just triggered him and made him get this mentality. Hinckley became obsessed with the 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which disturbed protagonist Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) plots to assassinate a presidential candidate. Hinckley developed an infatuation with Jodie Foster, When Foster went to Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut, for a short time to stalk her. You can only imagine his obsession with her. He could've done anything when he got the chance. Failing to make any contact with Foster, Hinckley fantasized about conducting an aircraft hijacking or committing suicide in front of her to get her attention. Eventually, he settled on a scheme to impress her by assassinating the president. This is where his craziness really starts to show over an obsession for a girl just to only impress her with his craziness.
- On March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m. Hinckley shot a .22 caliberRöhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after the president addressed a conference. Hinckley wounded a police officer, a secret service agent, and a press secretary. The President was seriously wounded because the bullet grazed off the side of the Presidential limousine and hit him in the chest. Luckily someone did find Hinckley where he was “hiding”.
- Alfred Antenucci, a Cleveland, Ohio labor official who stood near Hinckley and saw him firing, hit Hinckley in the head and pulled him to the ground. Within two seconds agent Dennis McCarthy divided into Hinckley, intent on protecting Hinckley and to avoid what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald. Frank J. McNamara joined Antenucci and started punching Hinckley in the head, striking him so hard he drew blood.
- At his 1982 trial in Washington, D.C. Having been charged with 13 offenses, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21. The defense psychiatric reports portrayed Hinckley as insane while the prosecution reports characterized him as legally sane. In 1985, Hinckley's parents wrote Breaking Points, a book detailing their son's mental condition.
- Park Dietz is a forensic psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution and diagnosed Hinckley with narcissistic and schizoid personality disorders and dysthymia, as well as borderline and passive-aggressive features. At the hospital, Hinckley was treated for narcissistic and schizotypal personality disorder and major depressive disorder. Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. When he was admitted tests found that he was an "unpredictably dangerous" man who might harm himself or any third party. He was apprehended on March 30, 1981. Hinckley was released from institutional psychiatric care on September 10, 2016, with many conditions.
- What was interesting is how he didn't really have no one supporting him on anything he ever did. Well you can only imagine why, he's crazy thinking about killing a President to impress some girl he wouldn't even be able to see once he's taken by authorities. I think what they did to John was right, they took him in and kept him in a hospital for sooo long, because they needed to keep a crazy person off the streets to not kill anyone else. So thank god for them keeping him in the hospital for almost ever. I agree with the decision 100%. Wouldn't you? You cannot possibly feel bad for a man that causes that much harm who would've probably just kept going on and on if released earlier or never caught. I believe if you have a history of mental illness you should have someone watching you at all times because you never know what they are capable of at any moment. His life is as empty as this deserted desert.
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