Tuesday, March 13, 2018


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Shown above is one of the numerous notes and letters would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. slipped under Jodie Foster’s dorm room door while she attended Yale University. Hinckley became obsessed with the actress after watching the movie Taxi Driver and began to stalk her. The note is dated March 6, 1981, just 3 ½ weeks before he shot President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan and three other men outside of the Washington Hilton Hotel. When investigators searched Hinckley’s hotel room they found an unmailed letter to Foster in which he discussed his plan to attack Reagan and wrote, “I will admit to you that the reason I am going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait longer to impress you.” Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital. In 2016, he was deemed fit for release and on September 10, 2016 he was released under strict conditions.

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