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This is a different kind of cancel culture. Even President Ronald Reagan’s failed assassin-turned-folk singer is too afraid to step foot in the Big Apple — calling it a “cesspool of crime” after canceling an upcoming gig. “I’m afraid of New York City and I just don’t want to go there right now,” John Hinckley Jr. — who tried to kill Reagan in 1981 — told The Post days after pulling the plug on a June show scheduled on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Hinckley announced the performance on X last week but pulled out because “he said New York is...

NAUGATUCK, Conn. (WTNH) — John Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is headed to Naugatuck, Connecticut, to perform a concert. The controversial musician is set to perform at Hotel Huxley later this month. Hinckley said he’s hoping people will give him a second chance and listen to his folk music. “I want people to know that I’m coming in peace, I stand for peace now,” he said. “I know I’m known for an act of violence, but I’m a completely different person than in 1981.”

The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s says he supports stricter gun control measures — including keeping firearms out of the hands of people with mental health problems. John Hinckley Jr. — who was released from court oversight last month – believes there are “too many guns in America,” he told ABC’s “Nightline” in an interview that aired Tuesday night. “I certainly don’t think the mentally ill should have access to guns, I mean that’s kind of obvious,’ Hinckley, 67, told reporter Juju Chang.

WASHINGTON — John Hinckley, Jr, known for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, has been granted an unconditional release from a federal judge. Hinckley, who is now 66, has been on a gradual release from custody for years. Most recently, he was living outside a mental health facility. According to NPR, he has been recording videos of music and publishing them to his YouTube channel. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982 for the attempted assassination of Reagan. On March 30, 1981, he approached President Reagan and fired six shots. The attack happened outside the...

The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan is interested in getting a job in the music industry, possibly in California, his lawyer said at a court hearing in Washington on Tuesday. John Hinckley Jr., 64, lives in Virginia and was not present at the hearing. A prosecutor said allowing Hinckley to relocate to California for a music industry job would give the government “great pause.” Hinckley spent decades living at a psychiatric hospital in Washington after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting that injured Reagan and three others. But health professionals have...

Mike Allen reported over the weekend that "Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by resident-elect Barack Obama". Believe it or not, the time Craig spent shilling for Clinton may have been his most honorable days of work ... In the early 1980s, [Craig] was an attorney for John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan and three others. Craig helped put together an insanity defense that led to Hinckley's acquittal. Nine years later, he advised Ted Kennedy in the Palm Beach rape case involving the senator...

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The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 now has a federal judge’s permission to spend more days each month outside a mental health hospital than in it. Does that worry Tim McCarthy, who took one of John Hinckley Jr.’s bullets in the chest? “Not in the slightest,” says McCarthy, the former U.S. Secret Service agent who has been Orland Park’s police chief since 1994. “Maybe it should be the other way around . . . I’m still in law enforcement. I have no reason to fear him. I had no reason to fear him then and...

The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 has behaved well over the past year when he's been freed from a Washington mental hospital to visit his mother in Virginia, according to U.S. Secret Service reports. Agents trailed John Hinckley on more than 35 days during 2012 when he visited his mother's home in Williamsburg. Surveillance logs show he shopped at PetSmart, Target and the grocery store Harris Teeter. He also did volunteer work, visited an art museum on the campus of the College of William and Mary and made planned therapy visits. The logs were part of more...

As of the last count by the Associated Press several years ago, there had been over 900 books written about Ronald Reagan. In the last several years, more have been added and given the abiding interest in the Gipper, one can be assured that many more are in the offing. A handful of these books are excellent. My friend Douglas Brinkley, who edited the Reagan Diaries---and who also edited a new book based on a previously unknown file in Reagan’s White House desk of his thoughts and musings-told me several years ago, “The realm of Reagan scholarship is just beginning...

The man who stalked and shot President Ronald Reagan is edging closer to being released after almost 30 years in a mental hospital. According to court records, the forensic psychologist at his hospital has testified that John W. Hinckley Jr has 'recovered to the point that he poses no imminent risk of danger to himself or others.' The college drop-out, who was possessed by a terrifying obsession with actress Jodie Foster, has already been freed for several visits to his ageing mother in Williamsburg, Virginia. [snip] Despite government objections, a judge in 2009 extended his furlough privileges to a dozen...

1981: President Reagan is shot President Ronald Reagan has been shot and wounded after a lone gunman opened fire in Washington. He is currently undergoing emergency surgery at George Washington University Hospital but there are unconfirmed reports he walked in unaided. Initial reports claim he may have a punctured lung. Five to six shots were fired as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel where he had been addressing a union convention, about one mile from the White House. A man, firing at close range, also wounded White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. A Secret Service official and...

Expert Advises Against Long Hinckley Visits Wednesday, November 10, 2004 WASHINGTON — Presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. (search) has a troubling relationship with a former girlfriend that must be resolved before he can be allowed to spend more time away from a psychiatric hospital, a government expert testified Tuesday. The testimony came on the second day of a hearing to determine whether Hinckley is ready to spend several days at a time away from St. Elizabeths, the Washington mental hospital where he has lived since he tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981. Federal prosecutors have argued that Hinckley's relationship...

<p>U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday freed John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan, for unsupervised trips from the mental hospital where he has been confined for more than two decades.</p> <p>Judge Friedman granted the trips over the objections of the U.S. government and the family of the former president.</p>

Just breaking on MSNBC: John Hinckley has been granted unsupervised visits with his parents.

So the bleeding-hearts want to give would-be assassin John Hinckley another shot, hm?Kinda makes a body wonder what the motivation is behind their latest agenda...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who shot President Reagan 22 years ago says his mental condition has improved enough that he should be allowed to visit his parents without psychiatric hospital staff supervision. John Hinckley Jr., 48, has been a patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital since he was acquitted by reason of insanity in the shooting of Reagan and three others outside a Washington hotel in March 1981. Hinckley said he shot the president to impress actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley has been allowed to take supervised day trips from the hospital since a federal appeals court ruling in 1999. On...

Loner who shot Reagan 'ready to be released' By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 27/08/2003) The loner who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981 is said by his doctors to have been cured of the mental illness that led to his assassination attempt. John Hinckley, 48, has been confined to secure wards in St Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington for more than 20 years after being found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity, but could soon be released without supervision. After making several visits, accompanied by psychiatric staff, to bowling alleys, bookshops, cinemas and the beach over the past...

<p>August 27, 2003 -- RONALD Reagan's would-be assassin, John Hinckley Jr., is seeking greater freedom, but the former president's daughter, Patti Davis, hopes he rots in the psycho ward. Responding to the news that Hinckley wants to be allowed unsupervised furloughs from his hospital, Davis told PAGE SIX: "In the late '80s - when they were trying to get him out on supervised visits - it was discovered that he was pen pals with [serial killer] Ted Bundy and Charles Manson." Shockingly, Hinckley - who shot Reagan, crippled James Brady and killed a Secret Service agent in 1981 to impress a young Jodie Foster - has been allowed to make supervised visits to friends and family since 1999. Davis thinks his latest request is part of a plan to win his eventual release. She asked: "Is there some valuable part of John Hinckley that society is missing out on?" Davis has written an opinion piece for newsweek.com that further expresses her feelings.</p>

<p>John Hinckley Wants Out His lawyers say the man who shot Ronald Reagan needs more freedom in order to get well. The president’s daughter says ‘who cares?’</p> <p>Aug. 26 — Since 1999, John Hinckley, the man who shot my father, has been walking off the grounds of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital accompanied by a member of the hospital staff. These “supervised day trips” have included visits to shopping malls, book stores and bowling alleys, as well as meals with his family. The U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia has gone to court numerous times trying to convince judges that Hinckley should not be wandering around the nation’s capital even with a hospital attendant accompanying him, but they have not succeeded. The supervised day trips have continued.</p>