Jodie Foster
John Hinckley Jr., tried to assassinate former U.S.
President Ronald Reagan in 1981, injuring him and three
others (former White House Press Secretary James Brady,
Secret Service agent Tim
McCarthy and police officer Thomas Delahantry).
Hinckley, who was freed yesterday after 35-years in a mental
hospital, is a severely mentally ill stalker, who became
obsessed with actress, Jodie Foster.
Hinckley saw Foster in the debauched 1976 movie "Taxi
Driver" where at age 13 the former child star player a
teenage prostitute, in what was a highly sexualized and
inappropriate role. Hinckley, at age 24, began criminally
stalking a then 17-year-old Foster. Hinckley stalked Foster
when she enrolled at Yale University in New Haven,
Connecticut. He moved from Texas to Connecticut and
routinely stalked her around campus.
Jodie Foster as a teenage prostitute in the 1976 film "Taxi Driver"
Hinckley stalked Foster to the point he found out where she
lived on campus and her private, unlisted telephone number.
Hinckley got so uncomfortably close to Foster via stalking,
he was able to slip letters and notes under her dorm room
door and repeatedly telephoned her room, in what was a
violation of her privacy.
Due to the fact Foster understandably rejected Hinckley, as
no one likes being stalked and hounded, he insanely decided
the only way to get her attention was to kill the President
of the United States, which he later insanely branded, "The
greatest love offering in human history." Hinckley first
sought to kill former President Jimmy Carter, but later
settled on newly elected Reagan.
Jodie Foster in her late teens when the Regan assassination attempt occurred
Right before Hinckley attempted to kill Reagan, he slipped a
note under Foster's dorm room door stating, "Over the past
seven months I've left you dozens of poems, letters and love
messages in the faint hope that you could develop an
interest in me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of
times I never had the nerve to simply approach you and
introduce myself...the reason I'm going ahead with this
attempt now is because I cannot wait any longer to impress
you. - John Hinckley Jr."
The warning signs were there that he was capable of acts of
violence. Hinckley stalked former President Carter from
state to state and was arrested on a weapons charge while
doing so. Hinckley's family missed the warning signs,
despite the fact they did him treatment for depression, that
he had become dangerous. However, the diagnosis was
incomplete and in some regard incorrect. He was having
violent ideations that made him a danger. He bought weapons
prior to the assassination in attempts at acting out violent
ideas.
John Hinckley Jr mug shot in 1981
Hinckley came from a wealthy oil family in Texas. His
family's wealth clearly made a difference in the case, as he
should have been sent to prison and for life, over the
attempted murder of Ronald Reagan, James Brady, Tim McCarthy
and Thomas Delahantry. Now the public is placed in peril
again, as he has been freed, while one of his victims,
Brady, died two years ago due to injuries stemming from the
shooting.
When Hinckley was admitted to a mental hospital after the
attempted assassination, a psychiatrist labeled him
"unpredictably dangerous." For decades his obsession with
Foster has continued, as items relating to her have
repeatedly been found in his possession. Yet, he has been
freed this week.
John Hinckley Jr. is now free and likely still harboring an obsession with Jodie Foster
Stalkers usually do not stop their criminal behavior unless
they are stopped under the law. Stalkers should not be taken
lightly. It is a serious mental disorder and one that
warrants long term psychiatric intervention and confinement
to a mental facility, provided the individual did not commit
attempted murder or murder, which deserves a prison
sentence.
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