approximately 2:25 pm a mentally deranged man named John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Jr. was born May 29, 1955. He was 25 years old when he attempted the assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley had developed an obsession for an actress Jodie Foster. When he viewed the movie Taxi Driver a 1976 movie by Martin Scorsese’s, which was about a woman who tries to convince a taxi driver to assassinate the president in order to win her over. Hinckley had viewed this movie dozens of times and obsessively watched and listen to the movies soundtrack. He read the book the Fan which was what the movie was based on. Hinckley had repeatedly telephoned and written letters to Jodie…
President Ronald Reagan was leaving the hotel in Washington D.C. and John Hinckley was crouched in the bushes waiting for the perfect time for the president to come his way. From the bushes, Hinckley yelled ‘President Reagan, President Reagan’. The president turned in the general direction where the sound was coming from and suddenly six shots were fired. The first shot hit James Brady, the second bullet hit the policeman Thomas Delahanty, the third bullet missed the president and ricocheted…
Did you know a member of the Macnider family helped create the Mason City Public Library? Mason City is located in Iowa and the Mason City Public Library is now located on 225 2nd St SE. The Library is important in the history in Mason City because of the first attempts of a library, the first attempts of a public library, how May Hanford Macnider helped the library progress, the current library, and what was changed in the current library. In 1871, the first library was opened. That library…
John Hinckley Jr. Many people have obsessions over different things. Depending on the extent of the obsessions, they can cause people to do outrageous things. Some of these outrageous things can be anything from having OCD to trying to commit suicide or to even try to assassinate the President. Obsessions have different effects on different people. John Hinckley, Jr., an oddball even in his own family, attempted to assassinate the President Ronald Reagan in 1982, with a crazy motive and a…
of, John Hinckley. The Jodie Foster fanatic planned the attack for many months, and during those months his thoughts became darker and more hate filled. The insanity filled man had other obsessions too, they were, “Nazis, the Beatles and assassin (Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley, Jr.). At the time of the attempted assassination of President Reagan, when someone said the…
by a psychiatrist. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan was on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. by the man named John Hinckley Jr. According to fox news station the new anchors stated that: Ronald Wilson Reagan, who was just settling into the routine of being president of the United States the day had included morning briefings followed by the usual meetings, messages, and perfunctory announcement; but what began as routine became anything but, what would soon happen would forever,…
Despite its depiction of frequent use in Hollywood films, the insanity plea is not often raised. After John Hinckley Jr.’s case, the laws regarding the insanity defense were replaced with more stringent versions. In some states, the insanity plea was abolished altogether (Schouten n.p.). The insanity plea is raised in less than one percent of United States court cases, and it is unsuccessful 75% of the time (Schouten n.p.). Nevertheless, the insanity plea is not abused; in fact, it is…
If a person has no intent on killing a person does that make them a killer? Overpowered by the force to inflict pain. In 1981, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan and the following year he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. In just 1% of murder cases, defendants plead not guilty by reason of insanity and there is just a 26% success rate for the defendants. Of that 26 %, 90% of those individuals had been previously diagnosed with mental illnesses. There have been…
restrictions on fully automatic weapons. This law was challenged in United States vs. Miller, the Supreme Court supported the gun control law. Twenty nine years would pass until the Gun Control Act of 1968 was enacted into law. It was the largest Federal Gun Control Act in United States History. With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the violence related to social issues that erupted in the 1960’s this law was emplaced to help abate the turmoil. The law set the minimum age for…
Salinger’s notorious story, helped fuel two mentally unstable men to commit homicide. December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman becomes the most hated man in the world, at that time, but little did people know that three months later the world would hear about John Hinckley. Both of these men, and the assassination they attempted, have one thing in common: The Catcher in the Rye. Mark David Chapman is, in a way, the living Holden Caulfield, with the additional killing part. The early life of Mark…