Topic: John Hinckley

Not guilty plea in White House shooting

An Idaho man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to assassinate President Barack Obama...
Former presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. should not be allowed to spend any unsupervised time during visits to his mother's home in...

Reagan shooter ‘a danger’

John Hinckley's tendency to lie and his isolation increase the risk that he presents a new danger to society after 30 years of confinement for ...

White House ‘shooter’ pleads not guilty

An man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he tried to assassinate President Barack Obama. . A...

Agents describe John Hinckley's bookstore visits

The man who shot President Ronald Reagan appeared fixated during a visit to a bookstore last year on a bookshelf bearing titles on presidential ...

John Hinckley story

In some versions of a Jan. 23 story about a hearing involving John Hinckley's request for extended time away from the psychiatric hospital where he ...
A US judge said Thursday he was "extremely reluctant" to allow doctors to determine if John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate ex-president Ronald Reagan in 1981, should be released."I have got a responsibility here under the law," said ...

Reagan shooter says he is safe to release

A lawyer for John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan in 1981, sought Monday to prove his client can be safely released 30 years after the attack.Hinckley, 56, was found not guilty by reason of insanity ...
WASHINGTON — In the frantic first seconds after the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on then-US president Ronald Reagan, one of his bodyguards...
To mark the occasion of Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, the National Post will be running three excerpts from a book by his son Ron, remembering...