John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan less than four months after Lennon's murder, and police found a copy of "Catcher in the Rye" among his personal belongings. He left a cassette tape in his hotel room on which he stated that he mourned Lennon's death: "One of my idols was murdered, and now Jodie Foster's the only one left." He added that "anything that I might do in 1981 would be solely for Jodie Foster's sake."