| ; . ’ , 0-19 (Rev. 820-79) @ . . ; Exec AD Adm. __. WASHINGTON, March 31 — Feder: ‘investigators have found evidence that they believe suggests that John W. Hinck- ley Jr., accused of she attack on/Presi- dent Reagan yestefday, was seeking to impress Jodie Foster, a teen-age actress whom he had gpparently never met. “T have Killed the President,’ Mr. Hinckley wrote to Miss Foster in an un- mailed letter investigators found in his Washington hotel room yesterday, ac- cording to sources familar with the in- vestigation, According to another account, Mr. Hinckley wrote, “If you don’t love me, I’m going to kill the President.” Imagined Insult Cited Mr. Hinckley apparently imagined that Mr. Reagan had somehow insulted Miss Foster, officials said. This suggestion was contained in another letter to the ac- tress that Mr. Hinckley sent in recent weeks, they said. The nature of the imag- ined insult was not disclosed. Investigators believe that Mr. Hinck, ley developed a romantic fantasy abo: Miss Foster after seeing the movie “Paxi Driver,” in which she portrayed a/teen- age prostitute. In the movie, the protagonist, played by the actor Robert De Niro, is @ taxi -driver-who stalks a United States Senator after his romantic overtures toward one of the Senator's aides are-rejected and later goes on a murderous rampage in a ; seedy Manhattan hotel. Federal investigators believe that Mr. | Hinckley may have been living out the role of the taxi driver. ‘ The behavior of Mr. Hinckley, whose life began full of promise, had shifted in , recent years to increasing reclusiveness and aggressiveness, according to many people interviewed around the country since his arrest. [Page Al9.} Miss Foster, now a freshman at Yaie College, issued a statement today that said: : “The F.B.I. and the U.S. Attorney's of- i fice have asked me to say nothing about sociated with him.” The police and F.B.I. agents are inves- tigating whether Mr. Hinckley went to! "New Haven and stayed at a hotel for sev- eral days last October. They are also seeking to ascertain whether he sent * notes to Miss Foster while he was there. Actress Received Letters Ofticials at the Justice Department said that Miss Foster had received sev- eral letters from Mr. Hinckley in recent- months. They would not discuss the con- tents. . The unmailed letter fo in Mr. Hinckley’s room at the ye k Central Hotel here, officials said/indicated that fie Was in a despondenf, fatalistic mood and might take some action that would result in his death. . Agents of the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation questioned Miss Foster in New Haven today, according to sources close to the investigation. Mr. Hinckley was being held today at the Marine base in Quantico, Va., as F.B.I. agents in Washington, Nashville, Denver, Dallas, Los Angeles and Lub- bock, Tex., investigated his background. Mr. Hinckley lived in or visited all those cities in the last several years, officials said. . Mr. Hinckley was moved before dawn to a.smail prison cell at the Marine Cor- “yectional Facility in Quantico after the court session here shortly after’midnight. In his appearance befdre Federal Magistrate Arthur L. Biarnett“in the United States Courthouse, Mr. Hinckley was charged with attefnpting to kill Mr. Reagan by shooting him with a pistol and with assaulting a Secret Service agent. Mr. Reagan was shot in the chest yes- terday as he emerged from the hing- ton Hilton Hotel. James §. Brady, the White House press secretary vas shot in the head, a Secret Servite agent and a District of Columbia policeman were also wounded. : Mr. Hinckley was overpowered at the scene, and the police recovered a .22-cali- ber pistol from him, the authorities said. Early this morning, Magistrate Bur- nett ordered Mr. Hinckley held without bail. He set a bail hearing for Thursday morning. | Suspect Had ‘Irrégular Habits’ j At one point, when the Magistrate, asked Mr. Hinckley if he was familiar | with his legal rights not to enter a plea - and not to give testimony against him- , self, Mr. Hinckley rose from his chair and answered, “Yes, sir.”’ Mr. Hinckley wes represented byfwo court-appointed wyers, Edward Wilhite ; . He was cpesed in heavy cotton blue coveralls cut Off at the and Stuart F. J sleeves. Tr formal filing of charges rare him ata ley. He said investigators had develo " a a Exec AD Inv. ___. | a ~ ee Exec AD LES ___ Letters Hint Suspect Acted Out Fantasy“: Letters Hint Suspect Acted Out Fantasy #»s-.— : . oe ; Crim. Inv. . = re pm Ed | By PHILIP TAUBMAN John W. Hinckley; but I do wish to say| ataniep in waste United States » ————— Special to The New York Times that I have never met, spoken to or as-| argued againstsetting bail for Mr. Hinck.._ — - jromory information indicating that the defendant»! Coun. ___ was ‘a wanderer and irresponsible.”’ He faded that Mr. Hinckley-hed ‘drregular its,” . that he could face a maximum penalty on the assault charge of 10 years" imprizom aing ment and a maximum sentence of lifeim- A The Magistrate informed Mr. Hinckley, - & Insp. Mgn Servs. Hs. Off, . prisonment for attempted assassination ne Rm, __ of a President. The courthouse and courtroom were‘ ° Sec'y . heavily guarded for Mr. Hinckley’s ap- pearance. After the session ended, Mr. Hinckley was driven to the Marine base at Quanti- co, where he was placed in a cell 6 feet by 10 feet in a block containing five other unoccupied cells. He was given a sedative after an examination by a prison physi- cian. Psychiatric tests, which were sched- uled to be administered to Mr. Hinckley today, were postponed until tomorrow. The tests, officials said, would help deter- mine whether Mr. Hinckley can aid in his defense and attend the bail hearing set _ for Thursday. Meanwhile, Mr. Hinckley sought legg/ counsel at the Washington firm of Wii- liams and Connolly. Two lawyers from: e firm, Vincent J. er and Gregory B. ig, ta. r. Hinckley Tae. “My. Craig later said that Mr. Hinckley Had asked them to represent him. ‘ It was not known whether Mr. Hincklev or a member of his ily made the ini- tial call to the la 9 firm-headed-by- Ed. ward Bennett ams, @ leading crim: nal defense attorney. The Washington Post — Washington Star-News Daily News (New York?! The New York Times The Wail Street Journal ~ The Auianta Consiitunor The Los Angeles Times — AS investigators checked Mr. Hinck- ley’s recent movements, little informa. tion was made public about their find. ings. According to officials, Mr. Hinckley appears to have arrived in Washington on Sunday by bus, possibly from the Denver area, where his parents live. They said he checked- into the Park Central Hotel, situated two blocks from the White House, where he obtained a room at $42 a night. Investigators searched the room last night, discovering the unmailed letter to Miss Foster and other undisclosed possessions. [ 4D02
‘ ’ 0-14 (Rev. 8-20-79) . A A Exec AD Adm. ._ Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: Life That Started Out With Promise Took “Increasingly Reclusive and Aggressive Path . By JOSEPH B. TREASTER : For John Warnock the Westernaire ape in Lubbock, ckley Jr., the | whe a $175- youngest of the three nofa proper- | a-nfonth apartment from January ‘to May ous oilman, life had/begun full of prom- }.4 ise. He had grown ip in a Juxurious home and attended perhaps the most elite pub- Hc high school in Dallas. He was a quiet boy, many friends recall, not particularly memorable, perhaps, but certainly not Qnfriendly or hostile. - As he moved through his late teens and {nto early manhood, however, Mr. Hinck- ley's passive shyness began, by the ac- counts of many people interviewed around the country since Mr. Hinckley was arrested Monday, to shift to-increas- ingly reclusive and ageressive’behavior. By 1978 he had joined the eriean Maz STO he was arrest trooper. e fallo e was arrested in’Nashville for itle S gal possession of handguns on a day ‘SS when President @frter was to make a = political appearance there. From time to = time, he received psychiatric care. . Last Oct. 13, four days after the Nash- Ville authorittes confiscated his guns, Mr. ckley bought a pair of .22-caliber re- -Volyers in a Dallas pawn shop ‘for $47 each. On Monday, Federal authorities say, he used one of the pistols to shoot President Reagan. . Today Federal investigators were sift- ing through the recent years of Mr. Hintkley’s life to determine how he might -have come to attack the President and whether he might have attempted to harm any other political leaders. ‘Aimlessly Wandering’ for Months In recent months, Mr. Hinckley’s par- ents reportedly told the investigators, the ; 25-year-old man had -been “aimlessly 1 wandering” the country They had pro- vided psychiatric care, they said in a statement, but they said medical evalua- tions had “alerted no one to the serious- ness of his condition.” Mr. Hi ey’s life apparently began to i / ree disintegrate about the time he graduated , Studying Business adminis tration. For the next seven years, Mr. Hinckley studied off and on in red-tile roofed Span- ish Renaissance-style buildings of the Lubbock campus, last attending classes in the spring/semester of 1980 as a senior } majoring inf English. ~ Mark Swafford, a former manager of! SEES \ ‘HW 54952 DoclId: 32969491 , said the young man had kept to him- self and seemed to subsist on fast food. ‘He Hit Me as Kind of Strange’ “1 only saw him with another human being one time,’ Mr. Swafford said, ‘He and another guy .were going up to his apartment. They weren’t sa any- ‘thing. I’d say something to him, but he’d never say anything back. He always hit meas kind of strange.” Once, Mr. Swafford said, he went into Mr. Hinckley’s apartment to clear a clogged drain. “Everywhere, there were bags from hamburger joints and cartons of ice cream,” he said, ‘“‘Dozens of cartons of ice cream and junk food bags. The place was a real trash heap.” y Mr. Hinckley did not speak to him, he ‘said. “He just sat there the whole time, at the TV,” Mr. Swafford re- called, “That TV and a guitar were the only personal things he had.” In Denver, a friend of Mr. Hin ley’s ‘father, John W. ‘Hinckley, who/is the president and chairman of the VAnderbilt Page 76 Ene Co ration, an oil and gas pros- mpany annual revenues of more than $4 million, said the young m had shown an early interest in writing ver Post The newspaper said that Mr. Hinck- ley’s application said he had worked previously as a salesman at a photogra- “phy business in Hollywood, Calif., as an assistant in a Dallas book publishing company and as a bartender at a supper club in Lakewood, just outside Denver. The Denver Post said that it had been ‘| unable to confirm any of the professed employment record and said that the Hol- tywood photographer had reported that a man fitting Mr. Hinckley’s description Adm. Servs. Crim, Inv. Ident. _ Intell, Loboratory — Legal Coun. Plan. & Insp. __. Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Servs. —_ Training — Public Affs. Of. ‘ofTelephone Rm, AN Director's Secy - y ~- had applied for a job but that he ‘“‘knew’ nothing about photography’ and was not hired. . ‘A Follower, Nota Leader’ In his high school years in Dallas, Gre ina, now an unemployed writer, a friend of Mr. Hinckley. “‘HeAvas a ‘follower, not a leader, and he was basically fairly lazy,’” Mr. Kalina said. ‘‘He didn’t have too many opinions at time in life. He was really just a bland personality, not-peculiar in any way. He just wasn’t a great personality, a jock or ne or anything that distinguish- The Washington Washington Star-News Daily News (New York) - The New York Times — The Wall Street Post ___ dg Journal The Atlanta Constitution WW - The Los Angeles Times —--. FSI DOS
<he Early in 1978 Mr. Hinckley wert to the Chicago headquarters of the Nafional So- alist Party of America, o refe ca, and was accepted as x’member, according to Mi- chael C. org on. The/following year, however, the or- ganization refused to renew Mr. Hinck- ley’s membership, Mr. Allen said, be- cause of his “‘violent nature.” ‘Talking About Shooting People’ “He kept talking about going out and shooting people and blowing things up,” Mr. Allen said. “When a guy comes to us advocating that, we make the assumption that he is either a nut or a Federal agent trying to entrap us. Either way, we don't want them.” Mr. Hinckley returned to Texas, from Chicago, Mr. Allen said. But on March 12, 1978, he traveled to St. Louis to partici- pate in a march to commemorate the 60th en, the president-elect of the Finally, Mr. Allen said, the party de- cided “he was just uncontrollable,” add- ing, “He had an unstable attitude.” The Dallas Times Herald reported yes- ‘terday that at one point as a student at Texas seth, Mr. Hinckley had done an anniversary of the birth of George Lin- coln Rockwell, the founder of the Ameri- can Nazi Party. He was assigned as a “storm r,’’ Mr. Allen said, with re- sponsibility for helping protect the Nazi speakers. . The marchers were attacked with snowballs, rocks and bottles, Mr. Allen said, and Mr. Hinckley became “‘flus- tered.” The response, he felt, should violence, Mr. Allen said. “It seemed clear that if we were ever going to let him participate in other pro- tests, we'd have to keep him in safer demonstrations or cut him loose,’’ Mr. Allen said. t book report on Adolf Hitler’s “Méin Kampf” for a class in the history modern Germany, The only arrest jifat has so far emerged in Mr. Hinckley/$ record came on Nov. 9 1980, at the Metropolitan Airport in Nash- ville. . 7 AS ie oes preparing to board an Americdn Airlines flight for New York, security agents, using a standard lue- e X-ray machine, discovered three pee dguns and some loose ammunition in his carry-on bag. ; The guns were confiscated andg/Mr. Hinckley was taken td/the Nashville Davidson County jail. Heiw: at 3:18 P.M:, the records sho , and was released at 3:47 P.M. after paying a fine ‘of $50 plus $12:50 in court costs. ot ov enforcement officials said the g port, recognized Mr. ley DZeU assailant of the President and tele- phoned Washington.
. a * x 54957 0-19. (Rev. &-20-79) @ Gun Traced in 16 Minutes. To Pawn Shop in Dallas By CHARLES MOHR Special! to The New York Times WASHINGTON, rch 31 — The re volver used to shpot President Reagan was traced to Ri *s Pawn Shop in Dal- las within 16 mjhutes of the time the gun’s “Sérial number was given to agents of the Bureau of/Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire- arms yesterday afternoon, an official of the firearms agency said ‘today. It was a “fast trace,” in the words of a spokesman for the Agency, an arm of the Treasury Department, which got the serial number from agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, simi- lar cases are routinely handled within a few hours. Spokesmen for the T: Depart- ,; Ment and agents of the Federal Bureau of | Investigation said shat the weapon taken from John W. Hi ckley_Jr., the suspect Ay arrested at theécene of the attack, was a Roehm Model RG14, a Roehm Model RG1, a sixshot, doubl double. action revolver désigned to fire .22-cal esigned to fire ~ i- ber, rimfire ammunition. This is the type of pistol sometimes called a “Saturday night special.”’ (A spokesman for the Se- cret Service yesterday erroneously iden- -tified the pistol as another-weapon:)- Rimfire ammunition is-less powe than many other larger, so-called center- tire bullets of larger caliber, but it can bé lethal. The pistol wrested from Mr: Hinckley also had a very short barrel, only 1.4 inches long, according to law-en- forcement agents. Wound-Limiting Factors Because the entire powder charge can- not effectively be burned in barrels so Short, the bullet does not attain the ve- locity it could in a longer barrel, and it thus develops less energy or power. The relatively low power of the ammunition and the extreme shortness of the barrel may both have contributed to limiting the severity of the President’s chest wound, firearms experts say. Federal law-enforcement sourges ‘here also confirmed/that the revolver was as- sembled at i pisto! eg tail price of .47.50, making it one of the cheapest that can be purchased in the United States. A telephone operator at RG Industries said today that all managerial personne] DoclId:32989491 Page Ti of the company — ‘“‘everybody,”’ in her words — had gone home. The Federal Firearms Act of 1968, enacted after the slayings of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., provides for new and somewhat more stringent licensing procedures for firearms dealers, of which there are now approximately 177,000 nationwide. Such federally licensed arms dealers must keep permanent records of the serial numbers and of the names and ad- dresses of the purchasers of firearms. It is therefore relatively easy for the fire- arms agency to trace a weapon found at the scene of a crime if it is a so-called “first buy,’’ that is, one that has been sold only once at retail. Steps in Tracing Weapon Yesterday, the agents telephoned RG Industries with the seria] number of the revolver and ascertained the wholesaler to whom it had been sdld last year. The wholesaler then said that the revolver +| had peen sol sold to. R&ndy’s Pawn Shop i > Daw] ~ShOp owne 156 astéin, said his records showed he had “este SL istol and another of the same etoa man usted as_Jo) iG 7 1d, 1080. The TS6S"law also prohibits the mail- order sale of firearms and limits sales to residents of the state in which the dealer is located, except where two contiguous states have worked out legally accept- able arrangements for sales between themselves. A purchaser must fill out and sign a form in which he affirms that he has not been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than a year, that he is not a fugitive from justice, that he has not been committed to a mental insti- tution and that he is not otherwise un- suited to bear arms. He must also furnish what is called “positive identification’? such as a driver's license or Something bearing a photograph and a signature. A Social Se- curity card is not acceptable. Some states require that the Federal form be submitted to local law enforce- ment agencies for a brief review period before the weapon can be given to the purchaser. But this is not a part of Fed- eral law and does not apply in Dallas. Hinckley on Exec AD Adm. __ Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: Adm. Servs. Crim. Inv. — Ident. — Intell. __ Laboratory . Legal Coun. Plan. & Insp. —_ Rec. Mgnt... Tech. Servs. Troining Public Affs. Off. Telephone Rm... Director's Sec’y__ The Washington Post Washington Star-News —_~ Daily News (New York) The New York Times The Wall Street Journ do ee The Adianie Constnation Th Los Angeles Tunes WH __- Date (LS!