DeSotoSky
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This picture is taken immediately before the shooting. Brady is on Reagan's left. Hinkley is in the group far right.
On this Day, March 30th, 1981. Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Reagan was shot leaving the Washington Hilton after giving a speech to AFL-CIO leaders. The shooter, John Hinckley, stood on the sidewalk with a group of reporters and fired 6 shots from a .22 revolver. . Reagan did not realize he was wounded initially, a bullet had ricocheted off the limosine hitting him in the left side, breaking a rib and collapsing his lung. Rushed to the hospital he underwent surgery lasting 2 hours. He joked with the surgeons saying he hoped they were Republicans. Three others were shot, Reagan’s press secretary James Brady in the head, suffered permanent brain damage. A Secret Service agent was shot in the side and a DC policeman was shot in the neck, both recovered. Brady's death 33 years later in 2014 was ruled by the coroner a homicide as a result of of his wounds with no further comment on the manner of death (???). Given the delay in death, and Hinckley having already been found insane, there was no charge brought.
John Hinckley and Jodie Foster
Hinckley became obsessed with actress Jodie Foster who played a 12y/o child prostitute named Iris in the 1976 film 'Taxi Driver'. The character Travis Bickle (played by De Niro) plots to assassinate a presidential candidate. Stalking Foster, Hinckley began to adopt the dress and mannerisms of the Travis Bickle character. Hinckley went as far as to follow Foster to Yale University where she was enrolled. Unable to get her attention he settled on the idea of assassinating the President himself to gain her attention and admiration. Looking back investigatively, there was even a time where he got within 20 feet of then President Carter in 1980.
Trial and aftermath
Hinckley was tried in a Federal Court. During the time leading up to the trial he tried to kill himself twice. The trial itself was basically a battle of psychiatric experts. The jury deliberated 4 days and found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity. After his trial Hinckley wrote that the shooting was "the greatest love offering in the history of the world" and was disappointed that Foster did not reciprocate his love. As a result of public outcry, some states enacted legislation making the insanity defense more restrictive. Idaho, Kansas, Utah, and Montana eliminated the defense entirely. Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was released from psychiatric care in 2016 with many court imposed conditions including that he live at his mothers home in Virginia. Conditions of release were removed completely in 2022.
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia
John Hinckley Jr. - Wikipedia
For anyone who likes going down the Rabbit Hole, the pistol was a Rohm RG-14 and the bullets used were a brand called Devastator.
Bucks n Guns
April 2024 BOTM. 152 Fixed Blade Ranger with S35VN blade steel. African Ebony with Nickel Silver rivets and bolster. 1 of 750. Prop is my Ruger Wrangler Birdshead .22 rimfire. Silver Cerakote finish and 3.75" barrel. A use of Cerakote I approve of....
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