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jr. with the stories you haven t heard, the police officer who questioned hinckley speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn t think that he realized the magnitude of what he had done. andrea canning: from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? andrea canning: secrets from his diaries uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actress jodie foster. the letters were assumed to have been love type letters. andrea canning: and the most controversial question of all. is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potentially dangerous character. he s proven that. hello and 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 are 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 robert
class= nosel > we did our job and we got him convicted. so they did. this sisterhood. for the sake of a woman whose fate might have been theirs. diane holik. whose friends came together to remember how they miss her. even after all these years. she was a constant friend. she was in my life every day and all of a sudden she was gone in an instant like blowing a candle out. you see the smile on all these photographs. was she always smiling? always. always. she had a magic smile. it was infectious. if she was smiling everybody else had to. we had to. i m andrea canning, and this is dateline. andrea canning: it was one of the most harrowing days in our history. i hear this pop, pop, pop,. the attempted assassination of president reagan. screaming and yelling. it is chaos. and now unprecedented look into the mind of the gunman, john hinckley junior. and the police officer that questioned hinckley speaks out in his first television interview. he turned to her a
baghdad before he was hospitalized. the economy ending 2023 on a strong note, 216,000 more jobs added, more than expected, wages rising 4.1% in the last year. when we come back, the actor and his two young daughters killed in a plane crash. and we remember the star of a tv classic and you ll remember his hit song.
known for more than a decade. look how happy he looks. he s handsome, happy, and looks great. there s john. they met hinckley in the 60s, and bonded over sports and music. he was a very well liked guy. we would go to record shops, music stores, places that burger. at home, john hinckley was the youngest of three. his father, jack, the owner of an oil and gas business. his friends say, the family seemed perfect. straight out of the tv classic, leave it to beaver. i would spend the night over there and it was a great family. his dad was more like warden. what s changed for the kid who grew up with everything? back in washington, the fbi was wondering the same thing. that night, agents were at the park central hotel, where hinckley had been saying.