John Hinckley is a man who was acquitted after the assassination attempt on the US president. John Hinckley Jr. and Jodie Foster

John Hinckley - personality is clearly not ordinary. However, he did not bring beauty to the world, because his creations are difficult to call poetry. He is known for all his obsession with Jodie Foster, as well as an attempt on the US president.

In 2016, this sixty-year-old lover moved to live with his ninety-year-old mother. Will a Hollywood actress, relatives of a wounded president and the current US president feel safe?

Childhood

John Hinckley came to this world on May 29, 1955. His birthplace was the city of Ardmore (Oklahoma), but from the age of four he began living with his parents in Dallas (Texas).

The boy was trained in a local school, he was twice elected head of the class. He went in for sports and played the piano. He graduated from the school in 1973. By this time, his father was already the owner of the oil company. Then the family moves to Evergreen (Colorado).

Youthful plans and dreams

From 1974 to 1980, John Hinckley was a student at the Texas Technical University. But his plans for life were not connected with science. In 1975, the young man made a trip to Los Angeles. There he hoped to be the author of the songs.

The attempt was unsuccessful, and he had to ask his parents for money. He informed them of all that had happened with him in the letter. To his parents, he also mentioned a certain girl named Lynn Collins, but she was just his invention. By early autumn of 1976, the young man returned to live with his parents. At this time, he first watched the film "Taxi Driver", which influenced his future fate.

A few years later, Hinckley purchased weapons. At the same time, he had emotional problems. He was prescribed antidepressants.

Obsession of the heroine of the movie "Taxi Driver"

The picture "Taxi Driver" tells about the protagonist Trevis Bikle, played by Robert De Niro. The protagonist plans to kill one of the candidates for the presidency. Jodie Foster played the role of a prostitute girl. After watching the film, Hinckley developed an unhealthy addiction to the actress.

John Hinckley pursued a young girl. He enrolled in one of the Yale University courses, in which Foster studied to be closer to her. But he did not get close acquaintance, he could only tuck a note under her door and ring him on the phone.

He believed that he could get her attention by hijacking the plane or committing suicide. But in the end his fantasy stopped at the murder of the president. He began to follow Jimmy Carter, but was arrested for violating the law on weapons. His mental state was tried to heal, but to no avail.

In 1981, the man decided to kill Ronald Reagan - the new US president. Before the attack he sent Foster a letter. In it he pointed out that he was doing everything in order to attract attention, because poems and love notes do not bring the expected result. If only he knew at that moment that his beloved would be more interested in the fair sex!

Attempt on the President

Obsessed John Hinckley Jr. decided to fulfill his plans on 30.03.1981. He managed to make six shots from the revolver. It all happened at 14:27 local time, when Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington.

Victims of shots:

• Ronald Reagan - punched light;
• Thomas Delahanti (policeman) - wounded in the back;
• Tim McCarthy (intelligence agent);
• James Brady (spokesman) - wounded in the head, as a result of which remained lifelong paralyzed on the left side, until he died in 2014;

John Hinckley, whose photo is presented, did not try to escape. He was arrested at the crime scene. Several cameras recorded the incident. Video is available today.

What did the son of the oil magnate expect for the crime he had committed?

Ship process and sentence

Detained at the crime scene, John Hinckley Jr. was presented to the court in 1982. He was charged with thirteen offenses, but was found not guilty because of a mental disorder. By the end of the summer of the same year, he was sent for treatment.

The recognition of innocence led the public into confusion. In some states, protection from insanity was banned after this process. A number of laws have been amended, making it difficult to refer to the insanity of who is in the dock, with the help of psychiatrists and psychologists invited from the side of protection. They were allowed to draw conclusions only from a medical point of view, and not from a legal point of view.

John Hinckley Jr., whose photo is presented, spent thirty-five years in compulsory treatment at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington). Has his passion for Jodie Foster gone? This question is difficult to answer, since during the search of his chamber in 1987 and in 2000, evidence was found that the obsession was preserved.

Exit to freedom

Long before his release, John Hinckley, whose biography relates to the assassination attempt on the president, began to leave the hospital. Since 1999, he was allowed to come to his parents' home in the city of Williamsburg (Virginia). These visits were controlled, sometimes again banned, but every year, Hinckley's rights expanded.

He was released in the fall of 2016. However, he still has some limitations. So, he can not come into contact with Jodie Foster, as well as representatives of the families of Reagan, Brady. He can only live in the area of fifty miles from his mother's house. He was also banned from speaking in public, ordered to work three times a week and see a psychiatrist twice a month.

Whether the release of Hinckley was the right decision, time will tell.