GIN Res, &20-Ta . @ Crush on Actress Eyed 2s Motive econo And in Hinckley’s wallet, police stage debut at Yale last week, playing s Hinckley Letters satire phocgeoneites Foc rel another prostitute, released 6 ter Seid one at Was Jodie Fos. Statement through the Yale: public e > ’ To Movie Idol know one actress from another." information office deny ing she had , : inckley. Investigators who searched the abn e say the US. Attorney's e 4 . Seized by FBI givissjerm tthe Bak Cua 1 f3 dhe US. surges A2OtE! at £08 18th Str: " Hinckley t ido recovered “at least one letter” which @bout John W. Hinckley, bu ; o] ay J have never met, spoken and By dane Meee iium was addressed to Foster but had not wish heen’ tha with him.” thestsie Washington Star Staff Writers been mailed. ent said. : : er letter to Foster, also pos- MENt Sac. . . Federal investigators have uncov. sibly coma se the hotel. was written Hinckley, according to informed ered evidence that an infatuation in a despondent, careless tone, as if officials, came to Washington by ri - ri ie a3: : : on Sunday and Foster have in fed Jobnewe Hinckley ‘were resigned 10 dying. checked into the $42-per-night hotel funchler ave ove sonn W-sources said, It contained the words, room located two' blocks from the Sagas ife on Moncon President jit you don’t love me, I'm Boing to White House. — : aritiee un, Kill the president.” . “ Monday while int earogcement authorities who The line was a close paraphrase Of iteelee hotel on he was phoned Jey orpnge the omen “old Hinck- the script from the 1976 fim “Taxi “several times” by a young woman sessed. with Foster for monthe, Driver,” in which Foster played a who told phone operators “he was According to investigators, the man Preteen prostitute and | Robert supposed to call me when he got into eased ofwounding Reagan and DeNiro played a taxi driver who town” Law enforcement officials three others wrote her letters, fo). Sought revenge for hisromantic fail- said yesterday they were mystified owed her to New Haven when she at 1S eotting the assassination of by the calls and were looking into egan -her freshiiran year at Ya ~ , * — them. Universite and even imagined he Foster apparently had received Yesterday, federal and local au. had developed a fuli-fledged rela: “Several” other letters from Hinck. thorities were scouring Washington, tionship with the 18-year-old actress, !e¥ this year-some of which were de. Dallas, New Haven, Denver, Nash: Hinckley, who had been under S¢tibed“as “love letters” and others ville, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Tex., -psy.chiatric care earlier this year, ap- 95,"extortion attempts,” and Utah in an attempt to track parently imagined that Reasan hid “It's weird stuff,” a Justice Depart- -Hinckley's movements prior to the somehow threatened or insulted. Ment source said. The letters were Shootings. — Foster, law enforcement officials fa. 20! generally political in content, U.S. Magistrate Arthur L. Burnett, miliar with the investigation said, ON€ Justice Department Source said, at The Tequesta To ett € request of Hinckley's court. But no one could say exactly what and these earlier letters did nOtcon- appointed attorneys, signed an order role Reagan plaved in Hinckley’s ‘#10 threats to the president, yesterday requiring a psychiatrist to mind. , fo Foster. erat to law a examine him this morning to deter. resterday, Hinckley was bei : es, Teporte © mine his mental competency. The hei in isolation at emcee es bizarre letters to the FBI. But an FBI examination was to be ede bea psy: floor correctiona! facility on the source Said the bureay would not chiatrist from the Forensic Psychi- Southeastern edge of the 95acre have notified the Secret Service of atry Division of the District of f Hinckley’ 1. cials theré would be “concerned” jf graph of Fee Har room a phot the FBI held back such information. 'sassin who killed President Hinckley, the son of a wealthy ‘Kennedy. The photograph, one law Denver oil executive, apparently enforcement source said, pictured “85S0 infatuated with Foster that he Oswald standing with a gun. There Checked into New Haven's Park Lane was also other “assassination-related 0tel near the Yale campus for three material” in the room, a law en- Weeks this past September, FB] forcement offical in dicated, refus. sources said. And Hinckley had fa). ing 0 elaborate. sery represented himself as a Yale Or . . dent in a job application to the In_ addition, police Searching stu eee Pan 5 dibtens ; Hinckley’s pockets following his ar-pock ‘Mountain News in Denver Test found a’newspaper clipping con-"*” . taining poetic material about ;recenuy slain John Lennon, and a ilarge metal button displaying Len- rnon’s face . [. Exec AD Adm. Exec AD Inv, a Exec AD LES wae Asst. Dit.: Adm. Servs, Crim. inv. Ident. —_ Intell, Laboratory ee Legal Coun. wenn Plan. & Insp __ Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Servs, Training — Public Affs. Of Telephone Rr Directo:"s Sec’y Quantico Marine Base in Quantico, the letters because they contained Columbia Mental Health Adminis. 1° Neshington Post v. Va. ne. Presidential threats, _  tfation. eashingion StareNew< Arb “I have killed the president,” Hinck- he preshien © letters threatening Daily News (New York) ley wrote in an unmailed letter to the president, he (Hinkley) would Mewe Veet | Foster which investigators seized on have been in our files. He is not in The New York Time ss ., | Monday, said sources familiar with OU files,” a Secret Service spokes. . The Wall Street Janes 2 the investigation. man said. He Said any letter that The Athinta Consin es Along with the unmailed letter, T@/SeS @ presidential threat should Te ee rn law enforcement officials also seized D€ Passed on to them and that offi- ms Bes Apne tes Pures HW 54952 DBocld:32999491 Page 6?
NW 54957 A report of the examination will be made at a preliminary hearing to- morrow in U.S. District Court before US. Magistrate Lawrence S. Mar- golis. The two criminal complaints filed against Hinckley on Monday accused him only of the attempted as: sasination of Reagan and assault on a federal official for the shooting of Secret ci Timothy Mc: Carthy Prosecutors, however, are expect- ed to present evidence to a grand jury within the next few days or weeks and seek an indictment that also will include charges related to the shootings of Whi “A viewer called in and said he recognized the face of the man in the tape,” Avery said. “Since then, we've seen still photographs of the man we thought was Hinckley. . . and we're convinced.” M/Michael C. Allen, the new nation- al l@ader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America, said Hinck- ley was ejected from the party be- cause he was thought to be too violent. “We didn't want him as a member because he was into killing people ~Q- The only one around the campus More recently, he sought a jot . who recalls engaging Hinckley in arecord store in a west Denver sit any political discussion is Calvin ping center, again citing experic:. Wynhe, maintenance man at the which the store manager did not b- University Arms apartments where lieve. The application was tossed ¢v inckley lived briefly. “He said he according to store employees. b was unhappy with the candidates Hinckley nonetheless told 3. and said they should be eliminated,” quaintances he had won a part-tir. Wynne said yesterday. job at the store. In the fall of 1980, Hinckley pur- (Also contributing to this ster chased two .22-caliber pistols from were Washington Star staff writ: the Sneidley paiplash pawnshop Lynn Dunson, Lance Ga}, Fred His: near ‘the Campus. store ownér Bill Howie Kurtz, Laurie McGinley az. and bombing things,” said ‘Allen ~exackett said yesterday that he did Scot Paltrow.) “We're not a terrorist organization we're a political organization.” Allen said that although he he met James Brady and_D.C, p> and talked to Hinckley for only hice officer Thomas Delahanty. Yesterday, a spokesman for Hinck- ley’s wealthy oilman father. John W. about 10 minutes in March, 1978, “You remember a guy when he starts talking like that.” He added that at not recall Hinckley and “his name wasn't even familiar to me until the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms peo- ple called me yestereday and told me to go through my records to find the purchase.” At about the same time. Hinckley Hinckley Sr.. said the family had re- the time Hinckley was a probation- bought a .38-caliber handgun from tained a Washington law firm to de. ary member of the now defunct the nearby Galaxy Pawnshop. The ‘owner of that shop also said he had fend their son. In Washington. it was revealed that Vincent lier. a Houston, Tex., unit of the party. One of those who finds it hard to been contacted by federal author- partner in the firm of Williams and believe that Hinckley was ever a jties and confirmed the sale but Connolly. entered the case and inter- M viewed Hinckley at Quantico. There were several bizarre twistS to the Hinckley story yesterday, in- cluding revelations of a scheduled dinner date between his brother and the brother of Vice President George Bush. a videotapeef a Hinckley look- alike shaking hands with Reagan in Lubbock-and claims that he was a former member of the American. M- In whatthe White House called “s bizarre happenstance,” Vice Presi- dent Bush's son Neil had planned to have dinner last night with Hinck- ley’s brother, Scott. The dinner with 30-year-old Scout Hinckley was scheduled to be in Neil” ley stayed:at several 0 ome in Denver, but was can- celled after the shootings. according to Shirley Green, deputy press sec- retary for the vice president. Nei] Bush, a land man with Stan- dard Oi! Co of Indiana in Denver. was “not a close friend of Sco Hinc- kiey’s,” according to Green, who de- scribed them as “at best casual acquaintances.” M-A Texas television Station yester- day reported it had videotaped a man strongly resembling John Hinckley. shaking hands with then-candidate Reagan during a campaign appear- ance in Lubbock on April 9, 1980. Federal agents who viewed the tape at KAMC-TV in Lubbock agreed the man looked Ti mekley and heard the man say, “Hello. my name is John.” according to Cliff Aver the station news ae octae-BuT alter airing the tape on the station's 6 p.m. news program yesterday. Avery be- came “99 percent convinced” that the man on the tape was not Hinck- ley after al) DoclId: 32969491 Page 86 at Texas Tech University in Lub- bock, Tex., Which Hinckley attended off-and-on for seven years. Nelson remembered Hinckley from a German history course he taught in the summer of 1979. And, even though Hinckley received an -A-minus on a lengthy essay on Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf,” Nelson said yesterday that Be believes Hinckley “to’be too intelligent to be an Amer- “ican: Nazi.” The instructor said the report was not a political diatribe nor did it en- dorse the views that Hitler espoused. While living in Lubbock, Hinck- { the spartan eraber of the Nazi party is Qtto Nel- son, an associate professor of history could not remember Hinckley. The three handguns were confis- cated on Oct. 9, 1980 when Hinckley tried to carry them onto an Ameri- can Airlines flight from Nashville to New York City. Reagan, then cam- paigning for the presidency, had scheduled a stop in Nashville two days before the incident but had can- celled it at the last minute. President Jimmy Carter bad been in Nashvill that day. Hinckley continued his solitary existence after returning to the Den- ver area following the Nashville in- cident. In March, he moved into the Golden Hours Motel on a strip high- low-cost student apartments that.way west of Denver and a world surround the university's front gate. His last home there was a $1/S-a- month one-bedroom apartment on Hinckley away from his parents’ $250,000 home in posh surburn Evergreen. Spent two weeks at the the second floor of a declining gar- modest motel with other pay-by-the- den blocks from the Texas Tech campus. Kevin Crowley, who lived in the ir apartment complex for three years and how manages it, said he thought Hinckley was shy. would answer your questions wasn't stuck up, he was just shy.” “He just didn’t participate. Every- one would be sitting on one side of the poo] and he would come down and choose a spot on the other side where no one was,” Crowley said. “If you went over to talk to him he — he apartment development two week guests. Those who knew him at the mote! never imagined he had friends or family in Colorado. While staying at the motel, Hinck- ley reportedly waited for and re- ceived a telephone call at a pay phone across the street most days at noon, although he had a telephone in his room. Once police in the sub- urban community of Lakewood vis- ited Hinckley after they thought he had been acting suspiciously ~ he seemed nervous and would not make eye contact, one officer said - but no charges were filed and the inves- Crowley said Hinckley used to buy tigation was not pursued. his food at the nearby hamburger joints along the strip in front of the university and would bring the food back in bags to his apartment to eat. Last October, he applied for jobs attwo Denver newspapers, saying he would take any job that paid $4 an -hour or more and citing work exper. jence that no one has been able to | confirm.
_ a , Exec AD Adm. 0-19. (Rev. 8-20-79) @ @ Exec AD Inv. ‘ , ; Exec AD LES __ i Asst. Dit.: Adm. Servs. Crim. Inv. —--—- Ident. ——_ Intell, Laboratory —__- Legal Coun. —_ Plan. & Insp. —— Rec. Mgnt. ahs ' . Tech. Servs. —_ Psychiatrists Say Troing ' Public Affs. OF. . Delusions Over Trucehons a Stars Common By Steve Stecklow The most typical kind of delusion Washington Star Stall Writer __ he said, is known as a “paranoid de- Two psychiatrists who have treat- lusional persecutorial system” in ed patients suffering from delusions Which the subject either imagines said yesterday an individual may be- that he or she is being stalked by the comé so fixated on a celebrity that celebrity or that the prominent per- he is driven to kill, thinking he is Son isindanger. . protecting that person. =~ While such cases vary in degree, Philip Mechanick, a professor an individual may even be driven to of psyohianry at the U at the University of Kill to “protect” the celebrity, Mech- Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and anick said. Dr. Leon Salzman, a professor of “Remember, the individual is clinical psychiatry~at Georgetown reacting to what seems real,” the psy- Medical School, both emphasized chiatrist said. “That’s his reality as that they have not examined John best he knows.” Warnock Hinckley Jr.; the Man” Mechanic said there are no known charg attempting tO assassi- successful treatments for such disor- nate Ronald Reagan. But the psychi- ; ; “ , atrists offered some general ders, including drugs. “There's not m comments ‘on the nature of ‘delu- uct he eee bave to offer such . Police sources say Hinckley was _ He added that the cause of such infatuated with 18-year-old actress Psychiatric problems is unknown, Jodie Foster and apparently was up- although some medical] authorities set over a slight by Reagan - real or SUSpect they are the result of “abnor- imagined — of her. malities in brain functions” and may Foster,a freshman at Yale Univer. De Subject to environmental influ- Sity, issued a statement yesterday . . that she has “never met, spoken to , Salzman speculated that a disor- or associated with” Hinckley. der in Hinckley may be much moe The Washington Post ——————=-~ Mechanick aid it is not uncom. S€flous than a simple obsession. “He Washington Star-News —Hoso_— mon for an individual to develop de May have been obsessed with this ee owe (ew York? a: lusions over a prominent person, Siri, but he must have been more se- Daily News (Aes 10 such as an actress, and imagine hav. Vetely fll,” he said. “He might be The New York Times ————--~- ing a personal relationship with that Schizophrenic with paranoid delu- The Wall Sueet Jeune! person. The Alama Constitutier + + The Los Angeles Things ——- -- ee 34952 Doclda: 32989491
0-19 (Rev, 8-20-79) @ ~ Fantasizied Love Affair May Have Led Suspeci By.Donia Mills Washington Star Staff Writer In an ironic twist that would be dismissed aS too incredulous for a Hollywood script, actress Jodie Fos- ter and the movie “Ta 1a Whith she played 4 teen-age prosti- tute, may have been the inspiration for the attempted ‘assassination of President Reagar. Foster, 18, five years ago portrayed a teen-age hooker who is befriended by a psychopathic taxi driver and ends up being the motivation behind a bloody shooting spree in the prize- winning Martin Scorsese movie. ! But in his travels through the more squalid side streets of Manhat- tan, the taxi driver crosses paths with Foster — a fascinating blend of innocence and decadence clad in short-shorts, platform heels and enough eye shadow to add at least five years to the 12 she was at the time the film was made. When Bickle’s assassination at- tempt is thwarted by accident, he transfers his obsession to Foster's character, casting himself as her protector against the men he sees as her exploiters. In the film's sickeningly violent climax — Scorsese had to tone down some of the bloodier scenes to qual- ify Yor an R instead of an X rating ~ he blasts Foster’s pimp and a cou- ple of customers in order to rescue Foster from ber depraved lifestyle. In an ambiguously twisted ending, Justice Department sources yes terday said John W. Hinckley Jr., who is charged in the shootings of thi use Pre > cretar ss \§_Brady, a Secret Service agent an a D.C. police officer as well as Rea- gan, apparently became infatuated with Foster after he saw the movie. They said he tried to kill Reagan be- cause of some affront ~ real or imag- ined — by the former movie star against the actress. and drives off in his taxi into the film’s murky sunset, an atmospheric cloud made ap of Manhattan’s ex- haust fumes and sewer steam. - Critics argued over the film's meaning ~ some condemning.it as a merely sensational celebration of -senseless-violence. Others insisted it made a-powerful statement about the causes and ef- fects of violence in American Soci- ety, about the drifters like Travis Bickle bred by our Watergates and Vietnams, people who could only Bain recognition through acts of vio- ence. . “I look for a thematic idea running through my movies, and | see that it's the outsider struggling for .rec- ognition,” Scorsese once told an in- terviewer. “Above all, Travis Bickle, the taxi driver, is an outsider. And I realize that all ny life I’ve been an outsider and, above all, being lonely but never realizing it.” , And in a 1976 interview about “Taxi Driver,” Foster had some chil- lingly prescient observations about the prototypical loner who is trans- formed from a seemingly ordinary young man into a self-styled assassin out of a sense of, impotence and alienation. “I think the taxi driver represents those people--who are left anon- ymous in the crowds, the loneli- ness,” the young actress told a reporter, Foster, now a freshman at Yale University, was always precocious during her 10-year career as a child ‘actress, -with: -roles--that--see-sawed- crazily between visions of girlish in- nocence and portraits of Lolita-like teen-age temptresses. ~ But her most stunning role was that of the teen-age hooker in “Taxi Driver,” in which she establishes a platonic relationship with a 26-year- old misfit whose secret ambition is to purge the world of politicians and perverts. In the movie, the protagonist, played.by actor Robert DeNiro, is a taxi driver who plots the assassina- tion of a presidential candidate after his romantic overtures toward one of the candidate's aides are rejected. In a statement from Yale yester- day, Foster said she had never seen nor heard of Hinckley. The suspect's lifestyle and recent actions are dramatically foreshad- owed in the plot of “Taxi Driver,” in which the psychopathic character, 8 lonely Vietnam veteran named Trav- is Bickle, becomes obsessed with the notion of assassinating a presiden- tial candidate during a campaign swing through New York. Bickle drives a taxi to pay the rent at his fleabag hotel as he quietly and methodically arms himself, prac- - tices fast draws in fronf of a hotel mirror and plots his ambush. 54952 Docld:32969491 Page 90 Bickle ends up a hero for this deed‘ r Exec AD Adm. —_ Exec AD Inv, aS Exec AD LES ___ With Actress “is. . Adm. Servs. : es Crim. Inv. to President = “— bc Intell. _ “I guess there’s a part of him in Loboratory — everybody,” she reflected. “That part Legal Coun. that is waiting to go out and do some- Plan. & Insp. — thing to be recognized, rather than . Rec. Mgnt. _ sitting home in a nothing apartment : ~ and poverty.” Tech. Servs. Training —..-. Hinckley told FBI investigators, Justice Department sources said, that he had been in love with Foster ever since he saw the film, which was one of the big hits of 1976 and won the top prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival that year. Foster had to undergo a four-hour interview with a Los Angeles psychi- atrist before it was decided that she was mentally mature enough to han- dle the role. And the Los Angeles welfare board, which is charged with the protection of young per- formers’ morals, sent a child welfare worker to the set every day she was before the cameras to look after her interests. Public Affs. Off. . Telephone Rm. _- Director's Secy . “I'm no method actor,” she said, explaining how she created her re- markably authentic portrait of the youthful prostitute. “If anything, what! dois by instinct. And [ve nev- er observed or talked to a teen-age prostitute. But listen, kids aren't stu- pid anymore, like they used to be. Ev- -erybody: -knows--what--hookers-are. You see them in movies and on TV, you see them on Hallywood Boule vard. Al) the kids know how they act.” - The Washingion Post 2 Washington Star-Nev 2 - a Daily News (New York! ——.-—-= The New York Tre + 2 ee The Wakl Street deav tas) cee The Atheste Comets. % ee Tri Loos Anate hes Pinas eneeee o e atentanc tn ae eM RO = ve — 421-3 /o