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_ hy. ? ‘Reagan, Jodie Foster. and told her in a” letter-of- ar; 7a af you don t love me, Lp , Tin Pin going to FD*250 (hev, 12-5-78) (Mount ae in Space Below) @ ad ate page, name of paper, city and state.) "The Dallas MoRMIa & a "Fro statfand Wire Reports WASHINGTON = “John. W. Hinckley, accused of tryifig: to kill President idolized teen-age movie’ star ~~ awe his plans for the assassination, federal law enforcement solrces said Tuesday. The shooting appeared to be modeled after an attempted. assassination in Miss .Foster's biggest- movie, Taxi’ Driver, the sources said. Hinckley Sent as many as six letters during the last few months to the 18- year-old Miss Foster and phoned her, the , sources sai id. “She's the key,”_ ” “The FBI and the US. attorney's office. TV 463. SCARGHOD nance d NDEXED, cranonen SERIALIZED... AL 07 APRAQ 1981 FB UALLAS = 9 9A) nae / ot “et / St a7 FBI/DON HW 54952 Docld:32969491 Page 2? suspe ispect told Jodie Foster . Some of she letters included threats to - ~ ‘kill Reagan... inckley indicated he was upset-over 4 ‘real: or imagined slight by Reagan of his-idol — or was trying to win her attention, sources said. Hinickléy- wrote- Miss -Foster,. “Tf you don't love:me, I am going to ‘kill the pres- ident,” the ‘Cable ‘News Network in At- lanta reported. He also wrote Miss. Foster a letter de- tailing his plans just before leaving. chis’ hotel’ room ‘for the Scene of the shooting “Monday-++ but‘did not mail it, sources : “said. “He did it for her,” one source said. Tider! 1 + ba Character: 1757-F3 or Classification: Submitting Office: D Ae Lac “This guy! had-her up pinatpedestal, ” another said. “He thought this would i im- press her so much she ‘would fall in love with him.” "Sources said if the: FBI had nothing else except the: letter" written; ‘Monday, . “it wotld need-nothing- more.to. explain, his motive. ‘It made it precisely" clear what, was. going to. happen. 4 and. why, ‘At was ‘virtuall} i his last act: before. stepping out the doof.’ After ‘FBI agents interviewed Miss. Foster-iri New Haven, Conn., iwheré. she attends Yale University; : the - ‘actress, ‘Is- sued this statement: Mees"
wren Continued from Page 1A. sources said. ~ + The letter apparently expressed” Hinckley's unconcern about his fu- ture and his willingness to under- take a bizarre plan to win her love, The ‘letter indicates Hinckley wante¢ to “go out and do something 3 to get himself killed,” a Justice De- partment source said. In Taxi Driver, a heavily. armed DeNiro went to a political rally where~a presidential candidate was to speak, but Secret Service agents kept him too far away to carry out the 4 assassination attempt. Hinckley “probably saw the-movie 4 any number of times” because of his <= infatuation with Miss Foster, a s source Said. In the film, DeNiro went to the s * rally with three guns, In’ October, 4; Hinckley was arrested by-NashvVille ‘- te once for carryiiig: “three ‘handguns is % and 50 rounds of ammunition shortly ai dent Carter: fel ‘Hinckley "WAS SO obsésséd he fol- - - LA foe AAA YY . xf wal «a PES. * rere ho » EN "2 Beh > Sel PP Re me SNe vw? before @campaign speech by -Presi- _ “ at lowed Miss Foster last fall whenshe . ee . enrolled in Yale as a freshman;"po- we - lice sources in New Haven said. et -Hinckley-checked"into the Park ae | Plaza Hotel for several days last Octo- “« ber — several weeks after she en- RB: rolled — and sent her “heavy fan ¥. notes” that were neither threatening se »-: nor obscene, the sources said. Miss Foster ,riever contacted New. ae Haven police. or. fedéral..authorities. ies about any-of<the“letteis’ until after, ve Reagan was shot: ‘the sources said;* os : tat ‘of Miss Foster‘in ‘Hinckley's wallet'af-:- ae ter his afrest: ‘When, they “interno... © 4 gated, him Monday night he refused: ie to, discuss thesshooting, the sources & te-said., . “eo Officials also photocopied several we sy) - HW 54952 et \ ‘ * other items in the room — including photos of: Miss Foster. There were re- -ports the agents‘found a photo of Lee™ Harvey Oswald — the assassin’ of President John F. Kennedy — : “hold: ing a gun, and articles on assassina- tions. Those reports could’ not be con- firmed. “There hasn't’been a pad that he's slept in that we-haven't searched,” a Jhistice Department Source said. Investigators planned to take’ ‘handwriting samples from Hinckley at the Quantico Marine Base where he was jailed, in isolation pending a psychiatric examination. While thé saga of Hinckley, a grad. uate of Highland Park High School, . continued ‘to ‘take twists-and’ ‘tirhs, he remained sedated-in ‘an isolation’ cell at the:Quaittico Marine Base in Virginia; ‘Where he is being held withoutbond in FBI custody. Hinckley, ~ eportedly expelled from a neo-Nazi'group becausé of his violent attitude, and uncontrollable behavior, was. sedated and confined in a-Marine. brig: Tuesday. pending ¢ a psychiatric exam which was ‘post, poned until Wednesday. oy, Althoigh : Justice Departmént spokesmen said Hinckley had started. psychiatric examinations, the tests apparently will. not begin until Wednesday morning. . “Spokesman ,_ Tom Decair said " Hinckley’ S court-appointed attornéys: and -government-prosecutors agreed- to delay tests until Wednesday. be- ~wits Lae cause ofthe possibility # that Hinckley... FBI agents had found photographs: “Would have different dawyers repre-~ Senting him. ” part Of the? reason ‘for; conducting © ‘ the psychiatric, examination is. to’ “-determine whether “Hinckley is'com-=* ‘petent to ‘undergo-~ ~a preliminary, , hearing, scheduled © for Thursday , morning in” us district “court in Washington. One of Hinckley’ s court-appointed attorneys, Stuart Johnson, said, the paral examinations‘would be.a major fac: , tor-in.whether-his client would use insanity..as.a ‘defenséto the two fed- eral charges against him. Miss Foster is: featured this week ina stage drama about prison: called Getting Out. She started her career at the age of 3, when she baréd her:bottom for a sumon=ai] commercial and subse- quently made nearly 50 commercials. -The tiny ~blond® actress. Has ap-. peared in‘ 11films, the-latest: Carny,’ | in which .she plays a ‘reluctant |! Stripper..In Taxi-Driver-she. played:a, 12-year-old prostitute:... > are An extemely bright young woman, Miss, Foster. speaks 1 fluent French and’ graduated ‘as Valedéctorian ‘from the Lycee, an all, French spéaking.school ° iti Los Angeles.” “She: applied -to: and. was.accepted by’ Yale, Princeton; “‘Har- vard, Columbia, Berkeley and. Stan- fard Docld:32989491_ Pa
a Re ee - haye..asked me to say nothing about John W. Hinckley. But I do wish to say that I have never met, spoken to or asso- ciated with him. I will have no further comment at this time. Inquiries should be addressed to the FBI.”. > Miss Foster is best known for her role as-a-12-year-old prostitute in the movie; Taxi Driver. Bae nwa tee The letter addressed to Miss Foster auu found by FBI agents in Hinckley’s hotel room,.two blocks from the White- House, said “I have killed the president,” Jodie Foster ... portrayed ‘a. 12-year-old “| | ohm See HINCKLEY on Page 6A. prostitute in Taxi Driver. }' "3 ta ss Ps re o ~ SC eeeees reer SAE RENT OIA RIONS RAS AE ORES . oF Sogn BAS ee : . AP a PASSES, FSP ST ra tye ASRS MERE RSet : Re afpe: SES Ee SEBS BRS, PA RON PR eae OS ~ ‘ ‘ Ee ae +& ae 4‘ v Ge . we rt Mw w a at Bers § off BS RSE NS As EE REE Fa Ae Phe Dee es oa Sag a Coe aS a wanes ase wats > aren: was SEER NES . x) eeeagas. t4 MASS we ' $s yet ‘a “a | is : . United Press litazzetcial | vy: President Reagan’s hand was slightly unsteady Tuesday when- _ & he signed legislation in the hospital. The bottom signature i appeared on a measure he signed Jan. 20. _—— HW 54952 DocId:32989491 Page 4
- . % . : @ 1 @ vase, none of FD-30 (Rev. 12-5-78) “teaper, city and state.) | "DaLLas Times HERALD” Date: wli jes l Edition: oe es, ? (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Title: f? /h +116 ' Character: |75- 73 or - Classification: Submitting Office: DALLAS 7 ”~COs*S, 25, chad désctibed his assassttixtion Fronpwirezeports plans in an unmailed letter to ‘Miss ‘WASHINGTON — The man ac- Foster. : «cused of trying. to kill President: Rea- Quotifig sources familiar ‘with the. gan may. have been: driven by an ob- investigation, The New York Timés sessive and‘i ‘imaginary love affair-with reported in today's early edition that Jodié Foster;.the actress who played'a Hinckley -wrote “I have killed ‘the : child prostitute in the violent film President” in‘an unmailed: letter to ‘ “Taxi-Driver.” ” . Miss Foster.” . . -“He did it-for her,” said one source A Justice Department source con-_ . ™ f closely familiar with the investigation. firméd that a two-page letter: had” “e “She's the key.” been found‘in Room No. 312 in Wash- * -Atty. Geri. William French Smith ington’s Park Central Hotel, where told: separate meetirigs of Cabinet Hinckley stayed’on the Sunday night * 4 — UPI photo members arid congressional leaders before the shooting. According to'sev- John Warnock Hinckley Jr, Tuesday that John: Warnock’ Hinckley eral sources, Hinckley ad ae Written to __ to . . ” Poonam ne ertey rity nent tee € 4 FBI/DOJ Wwe0-/15- Bubb +H ae HW 54952 DBocld:329899491 Page 5
Ww ac S oe q em going. ‘One: justice: ‘Department ‘source, named, said’ “thatoné: -‘unmiailed”létter *:to., Migs Roster: expressed’ Hinckley’ s. -desiré-to “B06 out-and ‘do something:t to ‘get himself killed ‘marakable. similarities to- Hinckley's shero- of the movie; Robert DeNiro, plays. an: aimless, drifting ‘taxi- driver whose: ‘Major aim.in’ ‘life: ‘is-to-kill-a eset LISS7¥ ‘ost ety sdon’ t loVé -mé, goifig.to' kill the President: ho- ‘liké- ‘others ‘asked: Hot: “tobe. ‘The-pigt, Of oPaxic ‘Driver® Has. Te- tivities-in-the- ‘Tast: ‘few weeks. The litical: candidate, ” * ‘Hinckléy: himself: shas ‘been - ‘de- faeaairees ‘ MOTIVE — From Page One hn was.a ‘dropout' { from: Teicis Tech, put. - MW 54952 _ Docld: 32989491 ori, shis job resume ‘that he, too, attend-- , éd Yale. Yale: officials said; he did not. In: a statemént,, “Miss ‘Foster -said” that she-had' been asked’ by thé: FBI .. and: the. Justice Departnient “to say- ™ nothing abot John’ -W. ‘Hitickley:” -Local police sealed off’ ‘her dormitory; Welsh. Hall,, and. friends and room- "mates refused to comment. However, in. the statement Miss, Foster said of Hinckley, “I ‘do- wish to say I have never met, Spoken: to or. associated ‘with him.” ” In his meetings, with the Cabinet and- legislators, Smith suggested that" Page 6 scribed as. aimless by hh his own parents. In the movie DeNiro eventually. kills a group: of ‘pimps .afid’ énds up.a: ‘hero, although, unliké- Hinckley, ‘he never takes a shot ata politician. ‘In the . movie, ‘Miss : ‘Foster: plays a ay 13-year-old prostitute who is the ob: . 24° Jey of DeNiro’ Ss afféctions. - woman, “Tf you; don! t love me, ’m going to: kill the’ President. ” ; A veteran of ‘13. movies, Miss Foster is now a’ studentrat the Yale Universi- ty ; School. of. ‘Drama. Hinckley, who . € In.’ Taxi Driver; ”. ‘DeNiro tells: a- . See: ‘MOTIVE on. Page-ll ee ae ry ad . iH wee oe yennabe wn PARR, is ey cen Looe — Snscad + » 2s BS ee 4 Hinckley’ s ‘infatuatidh-with-Miss-Fos- | -f> “Miss-Foster? s:whereabouts-were. -un- ter may-have grown ‘into an obsession. ;} ‘He said that photographs ¢ of Miss: Fos-; {ter had. been obtained: by ‘federal’.it in-' " vestigators at.the ‘Park Central“Hotél: Smi ith said that: ‘Hinckley’s ‘letter. - outlined his: plaris 4 for’ what might. be- caiiie. a. fat te) ‘for ‘Miss Foster. Adiministration and: congressional: Sources, who asked not: tobe identified; ‘told the. Aséociat- ed Press that the letter spelled.out his assassination plans in detail, but they refused’ to elaborate. - “I'm going to do it for you,” Hinck- ley wrote Miss Foster, according to the AP's Sources, ~ * ‘certain. She.is currently appearing in. New Haven’s Educational. Center of:- the Arts. The role, her. stage | debut, is in-a prison. “drama: entitled, “Getting Out.” : Police sources in New Haven. said Hinckley -was so dbsessed ke: followed: her ‘there ‘last ‘fall:-The* "sources : Said Hinckley checked into the Park Plaza Hotel for several days last October — several weeks after: she enrolled — and sent her “heavy. fan notes” that were neither threatening nor obscene. Miss Foster ‘did not contact New Haven police or ‘federal authorities about the letters until after Reagan
HW 54952 vas shot, the sources said: A: -court-authorized: search, of the ‘Washington hotel room where -Hinck-. ‘ley stayed the night before ‘the “Rea- ‘gan. shooting turned up- ‘photographs, . sof:Miss ‘Foster, ‘UPI; ‘said. Secret: Ser- Vice. agents: who. atrested- ‘Hinckley also. found”: a: -photograph. of: Lee Har- vey Oswald;. -the assassin of. -President John FE. Kennédy, ‘holding 2 a gun. -and: material, on. other, assassinations, UPI. said. Vv. 8. ‘Attorney Charles Ruff, a for- " mer special ‘Watergate prosecutor. who was named during the Carter admin- istration, is- expected to handle the. prosecution of Hinckley, who would: face’ life’in prison if convicted on DoclId: 32989491 Page ? charges of attempting to assassinate a : president. He also is charged ‘with as- ‘saulting a federal. -agent with’a pistol. Hinckley was “moved out of Wash- ‘ington on: Tuesday and put into a brig at ‘Quantico Marine Base south of ‘Washixigton: under extraordinary . se- curity... ‘He is-confined ina 6- by 10- foot cell-that cofitains only.a cot and toilet: He was given. the sedative’ Va- ljum,. officials said. ’ Sources close to the investigation said police and FBI agents who grilled Hinckley for several hours Monday before his court-appointed attorney, Stuart Johnson, arrived on the scene came away with thé impression- that the alleged gunman was “a screw en? seen eral eo said’ that. for some reason, he just _ came apart. He just sort of exploded. ” “A preliniinary . examination on: :the chargés that could.send Hinckley ‘to, prison for life is scheduled for 10.a.m. Thursday, Sources said’ the» Suspect, who has a history of. psychiatric care, could then:be transferred to-the fed: eral prison in Springfield, Mo., for an * in-depth psychiatric examination. At.a-brief hearing Tuesday, U, s. -Magistrate Arthur. Burnett signed t two: orders calling ‘for a psychiatric exami- nation of Hinckley. .and ‘allowing in- vestigators. to obtain blood and hand- writing samples: from him in their investigation: ~ “2
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. . of - FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78): 1 @ @: rent and State.) te.) a er, city and state. A Dallas Times HERALD Date: Edition: 3/3) [8 Title: A ! Cheracter: |75- rs 3 or Classification: Submitting Office: DALLAS — ~ (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ‘Reagan among targets who cheated death By JERRY ACKERMAN Boston Globe Wire ‘There are those who have fallen: Afgaham Lincoln ... James Gartield f . Cs William McKinley ... John y-- They left few dying words. 3 then there are those’ who ited death: Theodore Roosevelt .. Truman ... Gerald ‘Ford . now Ronald Reagan. jdent Reagan's remarks from Hi ‘hospital bed Monday ‘had the - characteristic black “humor of such vivors. He told his wife, Nancy: ey, I forgot to duck.” And he. -a-quip-for--the_doctors:. ‘I. -hope. all Republicans.” And one for ides: “Who's minding the store?”. ' lore Roosevelt also was able to a aan oo iets after being shot. The attempt on . . , - Roggevelt’s life was on Oct. 14, 1912. Roosevelt, who had served as a Re- president, was attempting to  Win’a third White.House term as the . ; . Progressive Party's “Bull Moose” can- . . “4 didate when he was shot during a * campaign trip to Milwaukee by-New . York saloonkeeper John Schrank, ; ot who was to die years later in a mental asylum. a RiALIZE Mo ae 198 For— —DALL Ao FBI/D0I
P limousine after shots were fired by Sara Jane nation attempt on the then president in 1975. . ; - AP photo resident Gerald R. Ford is seen crouching behind a presidentia = Moore in an assassi- Reacting to the shooting of President Reagan Monday, Ford said, “‘we can’t guarantee 100 per cent security for the president.” eee The bullet pierced Roosevelt’s coat, his steel eyeglasses case and the fold- ed text of his speech before near his right lung. Roosevelt insisted on speaking, tell- ing his enraptured audience: “I don’t know whether you fully understand that [have just been shot’... -but~it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” “A president has to expect these things.” Ford was almost as blase as Roose- velt and Truman after his life was threaténed on Sept. 5, 1975, in Sacra- mento, Calif. In the nick of time, a Secret Service agent grabbed a .45- caliber pistol out of the hands of Lyn- ette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of cultist Charles Manson, to thwart the first of two attempts on Ford's life that month. Ford, who had- been only two feet away from Fromme, walked on into the California State House and met, for 30 minutes with Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. without mentioning the in- cident until they were through talk- ing business. , “I thought I'd better get on with my day's schedule,” Ford said later. Calm as they all might have been - at the time, United States presidents since Andrew “Stonewall” Jackson have been fully aware they were tar- ‘gets for assassins.. Altogether, includ- HW 54952? Docld:32969491 Page 11 ing Monday's attack, nine attempts have been made on presidents’ lives, and more on candidates. One of the most dramatic attempts on a president's life came on Nov. 1, 1950, when two Puerto Rican nation- lodging N.Y. . alists attempted to kill Truman in the street from the White House. Trying to enter the Blair House, where Tru- man was staying, they killed one Se- cret Service guard and wounded an- other. One gunman was killed and the other captured. President Jimmy Carter, in 1979, granted clemency to one of the assail- ants, who then was released from prison. : Three weeks before President Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933, a deranged bricklayer named Guiseppe Zangara tried to asassinate the president-elect in Miami, but killed Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cer- mak ‘instead. Zangara was executed one month after the shooting. The last U.S. president to be assas- sinated was President John F. Kenne- dy, shot in a Dallas motorcade. In- jured in the shooting was Texas Gov John B. Connally. Lee Harvey Os. wald, an employe at the Texas Schoo. Book Depository, was arrested for the slaying. Oswald was shot and killec two days later by Jack Ruby. In 1901, President William McKin- ley was assassinated by an anarchist named Leon F. Czolgosz in Buffalo .Y., as McKinley shook hands with voters at the Pan-American Exposi tion. Standing a few feet: from Mc Kinley, - Czolgosz fired two bullet with a revolver hidden by a handker chief. McKinley died nine days late: _ Czolgosz, who said he wanted to kill . “great ruler,” was subsequentl: electrocuted. . President James A. Garfield wa assassinated in 1881 at a Washingto: railroad station by Charles J. Guiteat who proclaimed “I am a Stalwart an Arthur is president now” after firin two shots at Garfield. The referenc was to Chester A. Arthur, Garfield’ - vice president. Garfield died 80 days after th shooting; Guiteau, who had earlie been denied a government appoint ment by Garfield, was hanged i 1982. ; “In 1885, John -Wilkes Booth shc President Abraham Lincoln in th head while the president was attend ing a performance at Ford's Theate in Washington. Lincoln died the nex morning, after being carried uncon scious to a nearby house. Booth wen into hiding, but was discovered anc shot and killed for the crime. Shortly after President Reagan’: election, federal officials. investigatec an advertisement in the University o: Massachusetts student newspape! seeking volunteers for a “Reagan hi squad.” A lawyer for two student: questioned in the case said the adver. tisement was a joke.° cay
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-* “« ° FD-350 (Rav. 12-5-78) Secret SELVICE. : |job hardest'at — * . 2 eer ee announced event United Press International WASHINGTON — The president ¢ of the United States is hardest to pro- .Jgct from assassination when he is ap- ° in public at an announced “eget, says Secret Service Director H. Stuart Knight. The man in charge of protecting the. president's life made these com- fents in an interview five days be- fore.a gunman Monday fired six shots -atyPresident Reagan, one of which in his lung. slight said a lot of changes have y made in Secret Service proce- Be Since Jofin F. Kennedy was as- ‘Sassinated in Dallas in 1963. He SaGubdn’t discuss the specific Secret Ok hetter protection contained in the Warren Commission report on the Reanedy assassination were adopted. =2H6 did say specifically that- Secret Seivice checks of a motorcade route befére a presidential visit would make 4€ Here difficult for a sniper to fire a Shot like the ones Lee Harvey Oswald Safed Kennedy with. *2 iad he indicated that the Secret Barvice profiles of potential assassins weotiid be more likely to pick up an Ssvald before he had a chance to.get , the president. ; t2e'The best weapon I have is to Yeion what someone is going to do Po et ee HW 54952 Docld: 32939491 measures for security reasons, - lithe said all the recommendations. Page 13 before hand,” said Knight, who quickly added “although that involves a nasty word in . this town — protect?: “Avan ahnoutced Vist ofthe prs ~ dent -that’ has, been-we'! publicized and is in aclarge arena where he is exposed,” Knight said. : To protect ‘the president against po- tential assassins the Secret Service maintains two lists, he said. One has- 20,000 names aind the other 400. To get oti the larger list of 20,000 “at one time oranother they have ex- ‘hibited: an interest in the people we protect .that might be regarded as a threat,” Knight said.. Each: month government agencies forward 5,000 communications to the Secret Service — including what ma be considered casual threats i the president and that is the source of the list of 20,000. Names arc kept on the list five years and if noth- ing happens they are dropped. The list of 400 are more serious,. Knight said. In addition to threaten- ing the president, these people have access to weapons, a history of mental illness and other characteristics which make them a danger to the president. John W. “Jack” Hinckley Jr., 25, had a history of psychiatric treatment and access to guns — he was arrested, last October with three handguns in the Nashville airport, the same day President Carter campaigned there and two days after Reagan was sup- posed to be there. But Secret Service spokesman John Warner said the service had: no pre- ‘vious knowledge of Hinckley before Monday’s shooting. Knight said there is no way the Se- - cret Service can guarantee the presi- dent’s safety, but he said he was con- fident he had the money and the tools to do the job. same SA we a Be F Blicate page, name of . spaper, city and staté.) "Dallas Times pate BL BITE Character: | 75- zs 3 or Classification: Submitting Office: DALLAS SEARCHED pm INDEXED scenes SERIALIZED. FILE APR ¥8 1981 E&I — DALEnS FBI/DOJ HERALD”
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HW 54952 359 (Rev. 12-5-78) recall 63 death y By-Earl Gols - Staff Writer of The News Dallas police officers on duty when President John F. Kennedy was * shot’ and killed said Monday's at- tempted assassination -of, Ronald Reagan brought them “a sinking feel- inig,a repeat of a bad dream.” yO They also said: *- ree oe @ Monday's incident, once agai, shows such violence. “can. ‘happet . .any time, any place. " : ’ g“There’s ‘no way to-totally pro- . tect-an official: The only way you~ could is if the president were en- cased in a steel! vault, But; even:then,. a determined individual still. could ..find a.way.— some sort of explosive * device.” -= -M Stiff gun- -eontrol laws do ‘Hot’ provide. ¢ a réalistic~'solution ‘since “peaple who’ commit, these crimes -will get guns illegally. . wt the only. people who -will comply Wi with gun control laws will be thie victims: ‘aad ‘Dallas .County Sheriff's Depart--- _— a ~ police homicide sergeant ' when Ren- “nedy was killed on Noy. 22,1963; Said’: he had just Walked into. his-office.at . the courthouse when-he’ learned of ‘the assassination attempt: on, ‘Prési- dent Reagan.. . “y got that sinking. feeling again,” ” Rése*said. “It made.me Sick: at. “ny stomach — it- -broughtsback. a.Wholg. lot of memoriés. 7 - Despite “Monday’s, incident,. ho ever, Rose said: ‘his views on. “gun cone. _ trol-have. not _ changed. >“T amvot for ‘ gun control,” he: said: “I. don't: feel. any different than'l did. Pedple.who commit these” “crimes” “will. get guns illegally. ‘The only people’ who will: “comply. With. gun ‘control lates willbe the-victiims.” - . zt gn Most Datlas police. ‘officers who ‘witnessed’ the Kennedy assassination ‘or'in some. way were’ ‘involved'i in the: -aftermath are retired. — 1 One of - ‘those, former Wiétective James Leavelle, said. ‘he’ hoped. the Highland ° Park roots: _of. accused Reagan- assailant. John Ww. Hinckley dr. don’t rekindle the éld hatreds di- se - am THEA DoclId: 327989491 Page 15 ment Capt: Gus Rose, who had'beena - ua BA am stone g @:: page, name of paper, city and state.) "The Daldas MeRMiM EE Hees” Date: 3 / 3/ /: a! Edition: Title:’ P9 ifA4 ele 4a (H-1) Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: 175-F3 DALALAC BPR ff ist ON saat Tos nue oe eerenenes ae FBI/OOJ
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Ee a ge HW 54952 D-850,(Rev. 12-5-78) ¥ s ’ A ae tee, VieeC: RISENHOOVER Star-Telegram Writer it -all; Started, -said Dr. Ronald: B. Tobias, back in 1834. ‘That. is when Richard Lawréncé tried to shoot President Andrew Jackson at point- blank range. Both of Lawrencé’s pis- tols misfired. “But Lawrence set the precedent forall presidential assassins,’ ‘said To- bias, a: University of. Texas at’ Dallas professor of creative writing who has. just completed:a book for Paladin Press: titled. Shoot to. Kill: Psycho- pathology of the. Criminal Sniper, - ‘The professor, ;who hasachapterin: the book titled “Patterns of Past Pres- ‘ idential. Assassins,” said-all: persons | who have attempted to assassinate a president-— -but, -not- succeeded _ have.done-so at close range with a | pistol. ‘in their late 20s ‘or 308 with the excep- tion of the twowonien who allegedly | attempted: -to: assassinate ‘President | (Gerald), Ford,” said Tobias. The professor sees the “zero. fac- tor” as a possible motivation for:the attempt on.President Reagan’s life | Monday. From William Henry Harri- son‘in 1840'to John-F. Kennedy in 1960, seven consecutive presidents elected in: “years ending with a zero | have: died. in office. Four of them were assassinated. “Tm just conjecturing: that so ' much mes exposure about the zero facta Sto, U'trigger an unbalanced ° DocId: 32989491 are examined | “And they've all been. white males, (Mount Clipping in Space Below) I: ca aged mt person: ‘to attempt: to fulfill the. pro- phecy,” he said. “Attempts to assassinate the presi- dent have unfortunately been all too common throughout: our history. Those who have made such attempts ,aré generally out of work or have -preat difficulty holdinga job:There’s usually ‘family conflict involved. If the ,person has been married, he’s ‘usually having severe problems with his spouse,” Tobiassaid theattempted assassins are usually loners who. have become disassociated, and in ‘every case they have-had a: superficial: political mo- tive. “I'd say that has been truein every. case- with. the. possible exception of the Puerto -Ricans-who tried to kill President, (Harry) Truman in the 50s,” he said. “In every other case the attempted assassin ‘has rationalized that he’s trying to kill the president for the good of the people. Some have thought they were doing it on behalf of the workers of America or because they, thought they were.doing God’s w Tobias said that in every case. of assassination or attemptéd assassina- tion there has beena charge of con- spiracy. , “There are always accusations that others are involved,” he Said: “We've been going through the: same process over and over. “I’m sure there will be a-hue and cry for gun control again. It's almost Page 20. newspaper, city and state.) ort W Date: 3/31/81 Edition: Morning Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seaeanataeen aetna” a ~*~ becomea cultural phenomenon;a rit- ual, the pattern of ourreactionaftera president has been killed.or an at- tempt has-been made. on_his life.” - John Hawkins of Dailas, a profes- sional. astrologer and. lecturer, pre- dicted ata Dec. 8, 1980, meeting of the: Fort Worth: Astrological Society that “Reagan: will die.in office.” He'based his prediction on astrolo- BY, saying: ‘that “every 20 years since the beginning ‘of the United'States, every president who has:come into office on the Jupiter-Saturnconjunc- | ‘tion has never fulfilled .his.term of ‘office, “They don't always get assassinat- -ed,” said. Hawkins. “The president, you see, is- represented: by the planet Saturn: in the 10th- -house, the 10th house being the one in charge: of. the USS: Jupiter is in the eighth house on ‘the U.S; chart, meaning death. When the planets cross’ paths, death oc- curs.” | Hawkins:.said he doesn’t think , Reagan will die from:the assailant’s bullet, “but can about bet you that he won't fulfill: his. four years. . (George) Bush will be the next presi- dent.” As to the validity of the zero factor, Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, when he was struck by.a slug froma high- powered rifle as his motorcade moved: through downtown ‘Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald; cera for the murder, was shot to death 1S later by nightclub owner J sdk " wy. Dallas (Indicate page, name oe 11A Worth Star-Telegram ort Worth, Texas WWf- 15-3136 fab RT Ocoee eR wentALle-D Ee ee Os - 2 os Logs 31 FBI _ SALLAS ey
_Docld: 32969491 Page 21. THe Warten Commission later ssid Oswald acted alone. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, élect- t ed:in: 1940:to the third. of-his four terms; died of natural causes on April 12, 1945, at, his retréat-in Warm Springs, Ga.. He-had suffered‘from polio.since before’he.was élected to his first term in 1932, _ Warren Harding, electéd’ in 3920, died Aug.2, 1923, of ari undetermined | iilness. There ‘was:no autopsy .arid | doctors said: they. did:not know the exact: cause of death. William McKinley, , electedito his second term in-1900, died on Sept. 14, 1901, eight days after. heiwas shot by in Buffalo, N. Y. , by.avowed: anarchist ‘Leon.Czolgosz}. ° James. ‘Garfield, eléctéd in 1880, was Shot in Washington( by (Charles (Giteau; déscrihed;a asa disappointed office seeker, on July. 2; 1881, threé 4 months. after -his_inauguration, He. . * died on Sept. 19, 1881. . Abraham Lincoln, elécted to the first of histwotérms in 1860, was shot by Confederate partisan J ohn Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatér.on-April 14, | 1865. He died the next day. William Henry Harrison, ‘the first president to die in office; was elected In 1840 and died April 4, 1841, of > pnuemonia three weeks after being sworn into office. ‘The only. other president:to die in '. office was Zachary Taylor, ‘who was ' @léctéd in-1848 and died of cholera in I migdesgjatter 16 months inGffice’ | Al SEILER ION ft gph a = ——————————E_