Would-be assassin-turned-folk singer John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to kill then-President Ronald Regan in 1981, was scheduled to perform at the Hotel Huxley in Naugatuck, Connecticut on March 30…
Yeah if think about it he almost saved America, but like another person who I won’t name the fucker Regan lived. Wonder what world be like if he had been successful?
He didn’t shoot Reagan for being Reagan, he shot him because he wanted to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her (who’d been twelve when filming and was eighteen at the time of the attempt on Reagan’s life) after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.
Yeah if think about it he almost saved America, but like another person who I won’t name the fucker Regan lived. Wonder what world be like if he had been successful?
It would have been entirely accidentally, though.
He didn’t shoot Reagan for being Reagan, he shot him because he wanted to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her (who’d been twelve when filming and was eighteen at the time of the attempt on Reagan’s life) after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.
Oh I know why he did it, just saying he could’ve been seen as a hero instead of a crazy person.