John Hinckley Jr. following his arraignment in 1981. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Almost no one had ever heard of John Hinckley Jr. before he tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan over a ...

An overzealous Jodie Foster fan who attempted to assassinate former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981 has been given conditional release from a mental institution. John Hinckley, Jr. was confined ...

Update: The plan is off for John Hinckley Jr. to return to the area on July 16, this time with a guitar rather than a gun, 41 years after he tried to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in an ...

John Hinckley Jr, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has denounced the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. “Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,” Hinckley wrote on X on ...