harrowing days in our history. the attempted assassination of president reagan. screaming, yelling. it s chaos. now, an unprecedented look into the mind and new life of the gunman, john hinckley junior. stories you haven t heard before. the cop, who questioned him, speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn t think he realized the magnitude of what he had done. from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? secrets from his diary uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actors, jody foster. the letters were sent to and the most controversial question of all, is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potential k dangerous character. hello, welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day, more than 40 years ago, gunman, john hinckley jr. has remained an enigma. now, we re about to reveal an extraordinary trove of his most private thoughts and feelings, and provi
from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? secrets from his diary uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actors, jody foster. the letters were sent to and the most controversial question of all, is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potential k dangerous character. hello, welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day, more than 40 years ago, gunman, john hinckley jr. has remained an enigma. now, we re about to reveal an extraordinary trove of his most private thoughts and feelings, and provide a firsthand look at his contentious second act as a free man. here s special contributor, troy roberts, with hinckley, diary of a dangerous mind. charming small town, williamsburg, virginia. people visit from all over the world for a taste of americas colonial history. this man came for something more. a new life, one that would be quietened normal. he volunteers at a church, she plays
with his parents. time that no longer included his fiancée, leslie deveau. after 22 years, the relationship was over. do you know why the relationship ended? being identified publicly as his girlfriend was very hard for her. the secret service was always coming to her door. it became too much. hinckley s focus was now solely on being permanently released from saint elizabeth s. in 2016, a judge granted his request. the man who attempted to assassinate president ronald reagan is now free from a mental hospital, after decades. hinckley s father had died, so he would live with his 90 -year-old mother, at least for a year. not all of hinckley s new neighbors were convinced that was a good idea. bring him here and put him in the care of his 90-year-old mother seems like a foolish decision. timothy mccarthy, the secret
Recently uncovered pages from John Hinckley Jr. s diary, which he began writing after he was arrested for trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan; an.
service agent who took a bullet shielding president reagan was also skeptical. we know medicine is not an exact science, few things are. i just hope they re right. i m a layperson, i m not a psychologist, but it doesn t seem to me like people with this kind of severe mental problems are ever really truly cured. still, hinckley wasn t completely free. the secret service would keep an eye on him. there was a long list of court mandated rules he had to follow. among them, therapy. medication, limited travel, no media interviews or contact with his victims relatives, or jody foster. but ron reagan was still concerned. my worry is that his narcissistic personality disorder will be affronted by somebody. he will not get the respect, or attention that he feels he s