John Hinckley gains full freedom 41 years after Ronald Reagan assassination attempt

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Hinckley, who shot and wounded the president in 1981 but was acquitted by reason of insanity, had decades of mental health supervision

in 1981, has been freed from court oversight, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.

Hinckley, who was acquitted of trying to kill the then US president by reason of insanity, spent the decades before that in a Washington mental hospital.Hinckley has gained nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube in recent months as the judge loosened Hinckley’s restrictions before fully lifting all of them.

“If Hinckley had succeeded in killing Reagan, then he would have been a pivotal historical figure,” HW Brands, a historian and Reagan biographer, wrote in an email to the Associated Press. “As it is, he is a misguided soul whom history has already forgotten.”

 

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is it appropriate to publicise his photo - he has served his time. Now he has to try and make a life, in what time is left - and this i imagine, makes that even more difficult.

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