John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years.
Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.
Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.
Source: BBC News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/758283971092443136
(Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:24AM
The kinds of policies Reagan effected had long existed: in 1896, William Jennings Bryan said:
—https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_Speech [wikisource.org]
Why Reagan should be blamed for the continuation of such policies long after he left office is unclear to me.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 28 2016, @07:25AM
He could have stopped the cycle. He didn't.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...