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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:24PM
My take from that is he was "meh" not like the presidents who did great things.
Despite his personal integrity, he offered no sweeping vision or program of action that the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had led the public to associate with presidential greatness.
In contrast nowadays you bunch and the rest of the world are just hoping your presidents wouldn't be too awful or even start a global nuclear war.