John Hinckley

John Warnock Hinckley Jr.https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/us/john-hinckley-jr-fast-facts/index.html (born: )https://kion546.com/news/national-world/cnn-national/2024/05/29/john-hinckley-jr-fast-facts-4/ is an American felon, songwriter, and singer who received notoriety for his attempted assassination of former United States President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/permanent-exhibits/assassination-attempt He was arrested that day and released on August 5, 2016.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/john-hinckley-freed-mental-hospital-35-years-after-reagan-assassination-n646076 After 2020, a ruling was issued that Hinckley may showcase his art under his own name to the public, rather than anonymously as he had in the past.https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-president-reagans-shooter-john-hinckley-fully-released-after-41-years-2022-06-15/ Since then, he has maintained a YouTube channel in November 2020, where he uploads music of him singing and playing the guitar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myJHb7GjME
==Early life==
Hinckley was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on May 29, 1955. His father was John Warnock Hinckley Sr. (June 6, 1925 – January 29, 2008 [aged 82]), who served as the chairman and president of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation. His mother was Jo Ann Hinckley (née Moore; December 7, 1925 – July 30, 2021 [aged 93]).
At 4 years old, Hinckley and his family moved to Dallas, Texas. He was raised in University Park, Texas, and attended Highland Park High School. After he graduated from high school in 1973, his family (owners of the Hinckley oil company) moved to Evergreen, Colorado, where the new company headquarters was established. Between 1974 and 1980, Hinckley attended Texas Tech University before dropping out.https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/true-crime/who-is-john-hinckley-jr-president-ronald-reagan-history-assassination-prison-dallas/287-b6c1d3cb-94c6-492b-848a-0c35764e5a16
In 1975, Hinckley traveled to Los Angeles, California, having inspirations to become a singer and songwriter. His efforts were unsuccessful, and he wrote to his parents with tales of misfortune and pleas for money. He also spoke of a girlfriend, Lynn Collins, who turned out to be a fabrication. In September 1976, he returned to his parents' home in Evergreen. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hinckley began purchasing weapons and practicing with and was prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers to deal with his emotional problems.
==Incarceration==
In 1981, Hinckley was charged for 13 federal offenses, including attempted murder on Ronald Reagan. Hinckley pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1981. The defense psychiatric reports portrayed Hinckley as insane while the prosecution reports characterized him as legally sane. Hinckley was transferred into psychiatric care from the Bureau of Prisons custody on August 18, 1981.https://apnews.com/article/john-hinckley-jr-freed-9db1af865b01dc956cb33291438392dc
The verdict resulted in widespread dismay. As a consequence, the United States Congress and a number of states revised laws governing when a defendant may use the insanity defense in a criminal prosecution. Idaho, Montana, and Utah abolished the defense altogether. In the United States, before the Hinckley case, the insanity defense was used in less than 2% of all felony cases and was unsuccessful in almost 75% of those trials. Public outcry over the verdict led to the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984, which altered the rules for consideration of mental illness of defendants in federal criminal court proceedings. In 1985, Hinckley's parents wrote Breaking Points, a book detailing their son's mental condition.https://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_Points.html?id=3JYGazpmTHQC&source=kp_book_description
An investigation revealed that Hinckley was diagnosed with schizophrenia, narcissistic borderline disorder, schizoid personality disorder, dysthymia, borderline personality disorder, passive-aggressive disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and clinical depression.https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/24/justice/hinckley-hearing/index.html
Hinckley was confined at the St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a mental institution for the criminally insane. Upon his admission, sources claimed that Hinckley was seemingly dangerous that he might a risk to harm himself or any third party around him. In 1987, Hinckley applied for a court order, allowing him to perform periodic home visits. As part of the consideration of the request, the judge ordered Hinckley's hospital room to be searched. Hospital officials found photographs and letters in Hinckley's room that showed a continued obsession with Foster, as well as evidence that Hinckley had exchanged letters with serial killer Ted Bundy and sought the address of the incarcerated Charles Manson, who had inspired Lynette Fromme to try to kill Gerald Ford. The court denied Hinckley's request for additional privileges.
In 1999, Hinckley was permitted to leave the hospital for supervised visits with his parents. In April 2000, the hospital recommended allowing unsupervised releases, but a month later, they removed the request. Hinckley was allowed supervised visits with his parents again in 2004 and 2005. Court hearings were held in September 2005 on whether he could have expanded privileges to leave the hospital.
On December 30, 2005, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley would be allowed visits, supervised by his parents, to their home in Williamsburg, Virginia. The judge ruled that Hinckley could have up to three visits of three nights and then four visits of four nights, each depending on the successful completion of the latest. All of the experts who testified at Hinckley's 2005 conditional release hearing, including the government experts, agreed that his depression and psychotic disorder were in full remission and that he should have some expanded conditions of release.https://us.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/30/hinckley.home/index.html
On June 17, 2009, Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled that Hinckley would be permitted to visit his mother for a dozen visits of ten days at a time to spend a little more time outside of the hospital, and to have a driver's license. The court also ordered that Hinckley was required to carry a GPS-enabled cell phone to track him whenever he was outside of his parents' home. He was declared ineligible from speaking with the news media. The prosecutors objected to this ruling, stating that Hinckley was still a danger to others and still had unhealthy and inappropriate thoughts about women.https://www.politico.com/story/2009/06/time-to-let-john-hinckley-go-023867
On March 29, 2011, the day before the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt against Reagan, Hinckley's attorney filed a court petition, requesting more freedom for his client, including additional unsupervised visits to the Virginia home of Hinckley's mother, Joanne.http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/30/hinckley.presidential.protection/index.html On November 30, 2011, a hearing in Washington was held to consider whether he could live full-time outside the hospital. The Justice Department opposed this, stating that Hinckley still posed danger to the outside world. Justice Department counsel debated that Hinckley had been known to deceive his doctors in the past.https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/01/justice/hinckley-hearing/index.html
By December 2013, the court ordered that visits be extended to his mother, who lived near Williamsburg. Hinckley was permitted up to eight 17-day visits, with evaluation after the completion of each one.https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/politics/hinckley-visits/index.html
===Release===
Hinckley was paroled from institutional psychiatric care on September 10, 2016. Under his parole conditions, he was required to live with his mother on a full-time basis. However, to ensure that he would not perform any reckless conditions in the outside world again, a judge ordered Hinckley to face some restrictions and requirements, which were that Hinckley was to work at least three days per week, refrain from possessing any memorabilia involving Jodie Foster, refrain from erasing his browsing history, and not to possess any firearms.https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/10/politics/reagan-shooter-john-hinckley-jr-released-from-hospital/index.html On November 16, 2018, Judge Friedman ruled that Hinckley could move out of his mother's house in Virginia and live on his own upon location approval from his doctors.https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/us/john-hinckley-can-move-out-of-mothers-house/index.html On September 10, 2019, Hinckley's attorney stated that he had planned to ask for full, unconditional release from the court orders that determined how he could live by the end of that year.https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/politics/john-hinckley-unconditional-release-motion/index.html On June 15, 2022, Hinckley was fully released from almost all of his restrictions, but was still banned for life from possessing any firearms. Hinckley also issued public apologies to Foster, Reagan, and other victims during the assassination attempts in 1981.
==YouTube career==
Hinckley joined YouTube on November 3, 2020. Still having inspirations to become a singer and songwriter after so many failed attempts in the past, Hinckley posted online anonymously, but received very little interest.https://deadline.com/2021/09/john-hinckley-jr-president-ronald-reagan-shooter-seeks-restrictions-lifted-1234844497/https://fortune.com/2023/07/14/john-hinckley-jr-releases-folk-music-album-reagan-assassin/
==Trivia==
*He has said that his favorite album is by .https://twitter.com/JohnHinckley20/status/1664737259571036160
==References==
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