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
it would make all of this worthwhile. when did this obsession with jody foster begin? 1976. he was in l. a., trying to be a songwriter. failing at it. he saw the movie taxi writer, he saw more than a dozen times. remember, she plays a prostitute, an adolescent prostitute in the movie, and he became obsessed with her. robert de niro played the main character, travis a socially awkward taxi driver, who plans to kill a presidential candidate. he identified with him. he thought he was gonna shoot reagan, and she diana hail of bullets. investigators quickly discovered, hinckley considered other options first. like hijacking a plane, and even killing the woman he claimed to love. his plan was to kill jody foster, shoot her, shoot himself, or kill himself in front of her. hinckley s lawyers thought all of this could be the basis of an insanity defense.
student, the actress was visibly upset. she told him that hinckley started writing her soon after she arrived at campus, the previous fall. and hadn t stopped. was he threatening, what was it like? i m not allowed to say. foster held a press conference few days later. the letters were assume to have been love type letters. have you ever seen hinckley? no. not to my knowledge, i ve never met him. the fbi learned that hinckley had told his parents he was attending at yale writers program, but that was a lie. he wasn t in a reuters program, he was there living in a hotel, and stocking jody foster. he was slipping notes under her door, love notes. this note was left for her just weeks after the shooting. jody, goodbye. i love you six trillion times. don t you may be like me just a little bit? you must admit, i am different. it would make all of this worthwhile. when did this obsession with jody foster begin? 1976.
previous fall. and hadn t stopped. was he threatening, what was it like? i m not allowed to say. foster held a press conference few days later. the letters were assume to have been love type letters. have you ever seen hinckley? no. not to my knowledge, i ve never met him. the fbi learned that hinckley had told his parents he was attending at yale writers program, but that was a lie. he wasn t in a reuters program, he was there living in a hotel, and stocking jody foster. he was slipping notes under her door, love notes. this note was left for her just weeks after the shooting. jody, goodbye. i love you six trillion times. don t you may be like me just a little bit? you must admit, i am different. it would make all of this worthwhile. when did this obsession with jody foster begin? 1976. he was in l.a., trying to be a songwriter. failing at it. he saw the movie taxi writer,