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TIL the man who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan did so in order to impress actress Jodie Foster after watching her on Taxi Driver, which also showed a presidential candidate assassination plan based on a true-story attempted assassination
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til he’s out
Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman…
Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names.
Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn’t die. If Reagan had died, I’m pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley’s middle name was.
Trevor Moore blew the lid on what really happened in this murder attempt.
He is out and free now.
Yes I remember this like it was yesterday.
Reagan was also said something along the lines of I hope you are all Republicans working in surgery.
It was a joke.
Well?… was she impressed?
Who’s going to tell him that she’s gay?
Jody is all folks remember. His family were oil-rich friends of then VP-Bush. His brother Scott had a dinner date with Neil Bush.
Also, he’d been busted in Nashville with a gun wanting to shoot a politician, but they let him go
Here’s an [article](https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/bush-angle-reagan-shooting-still-unresolved-hinckley-walks/)
Who else knows this because of the Assassins musical
You just learned this? Did you know his dad had lunch with the vice president, George Bush like a week earlier.