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The story of the man who wanted to kill Ronald Reagan

2022-06-14T19:03:02.483Z


STORY – Obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, the young man had wanted to impress her by assassinating the 40th President of the United States. Considered irresponsible, he was interned for thirty-five years in a psychiatric hospital. After a long redemption, here he is, at 67, freed...


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John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is free.

The man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981 and lived for six years under judicial supervision, will no longer have to account for his movements and frequentations.

At 67, one of America's most reviled criminals blends easily into the anonymous crowd in the small historic town of Williamsburg, Va., 150 miles south of Washington, where he was allowed to join his mother in 2016, then to live alone.

A judge agreed with the experts, finding that the individual no longer posed a threat to society.

But he still had to prove himself: lead a peaceful life, share his daily diary as well as the texts of his songs - his Ingres violin - to detect the slightest residue of psychological disorder.

And "move on"

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according to the consecrated expression: to move on.

To definitively turn your back on a violent past and an incident that almost upset the fate of the world, in the midst of war...

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Source: lefigaro

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