Man who shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster sends her a message
- John Hinckley Jr. wished actress Jodie Foster well in a recent interview, decades after attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan to gain her attention.
- Speaking on the Mark Joseph Show, Hinckley acknowledged that his past obsession with Foster was delusional and expressed hope that she has a good life.
- Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan and three others outside a Washington, D.C. hotel on March 30, 1981.
- Found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982, Hinckley spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital before being released in 2022.
- Foster has rarely addressed the shooting, though she wrote in a 1982 essay that Hinckley’s primary crime was confusing love with obsession.
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