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John Warnock Hinckley Jr.,
whose once-seemingly aimless
travels gave him the image of a
drifter, came back into public
view last week, looking slimmer
and clean cut.
The occasion was his transfer
from a federal prison in North
v Carolina back to the Marine base
' at Quantico, Va., to await indict
ment on charges of trying to kill
President Reagan.
The 13-count indictment was
returned Monday. If convicted,
Hinckley could face life in prison.
Hinckley, 26, has been held in
seclusion by federal authorities
since March 30, the day a barrage
of explosive “Devastator” bullets
outside a Washington hotel cut
down four men — Reagan, pres
idential press secretary James
Brady, a Secret Service agent and
a Washington policeman.
As the crackling sound of .22
caliber reports faded, Hinckley
was grabbed by Secret Service
agents — the end of what investi
gators say. was a convoluted chain
of events that ran from coast to
coast and apparently highlighted
by a bizarre obsession with a teen
age actress.
In the aftermath of the shoot
ing, Hinckley was seen only in fuz
zy tourist photos, old family pic
tures or remote television scenes.
Last week, accompanied by
guards to a waiting helicopter at
Butner, N.C., he appeared trim
and fit. His sandy hair was neatly
cut, his clothes natty.
The impression was far from
that of the plump, troubled youth
who sipped peach brandy last
New Year’s Eve and tape recorded
a monologue linking his grief over
the murder of Beatle John Lennon
to his infatuation with actress
Jodie Foster.
Hinckley, the son of a wealthy
Evergreen, Colo., oilman, was
bom in Ardmore, Okla., on May
29, 1955. His family, described as
devoutly Christian, soon moved to
Dallas.
He was outgoing in junior high
school, friends recalled — he was
elected homeroom president in
seventh and ninth grades, and
managed the eighth grade basket-
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ball team — but he seemed to
withdraw in high school.
During his seven years after
high school, he dabbled with high
er education. He enrolled at Texas
Tech, switched majors from busi
ness administration to English,
never got a degree. His life
seemed to lose direction.
He served a brief stint as a
“storm trooper” in a neo-Nazi
group in 1978, but was booted for
being “uncontrollable, unstable.”
He continued to drift, unsuccess
fully seeking work. He suffered
psychiatric troubles and was tre
ated with Valium, his family said.
During his confinement at But
ner, where he was undergoing
psychiatric evaluation, Hinckley
took an overdose of Tylenol, but
was quickly treated. Authorities
said his life was not in danger.
Before the Washington shoot
ing, Hinckley had been arested
only once — on gun charges. He
was picked up Oct. 9, 1980, in
Nashville, Tenn., but released af
ter posting bond. Federal author
ities said Hinckley may have been
stalking President Carter.
Four days later, back in Dallas,
he bought the gun authorities say
was used to shoot Reagan.
Beneath his aimless exterior,
Hinckley seemed to be driven by
an obsession with Foster, and in
vestigators say the attack on
Reagan may have been modeled
after the movie “Taxi Driver,” in
which she appeared.
Last New Year’s Eve, drinking
alone, Hinckley made a tape re
cording that was found in his
Washington hotel room after his
arrest. He lamented the death of *
Lennon, who was fatally shot out- l
side his New York home in De-
cember.
“My life is all screwed up,” he J
said. “The world is even mofe •
screwed up. I don’t know why »
people want to live.
“It was such a shock to me. .It J
blew my mind. Now Jodie is the <
only one in the world that mat- «
ters -” s
Officials have traced Hinckley’s J
travels to New Haven, Conn., ’■>
where Foster is a student at Yale, i
He slipped notes under her door j;
in early March, and tried to speak j;
with her on the phone.
Then he was back to Denver, &
abandoning his car for a flight to l
Los Angeles. There he startecLa
three-day cross-country bus trijpv;
that brought him to Washington*
the day before the assassination*
attempt.
Searching Hinckley’s hotet^
room after the shooting, federal^
agents discovered a letter addresj*
sed to Foster.
“Jodie, I would abandon the£
idea of getting Reagan in a second
if I could only win your heart, yj
“I will admit to you that thi
reason I’m going ahead with thv
attempt now is because I just cari^'
not wait any longer to imprest
you. I’m doing all of this for youi'*-
sake.”
The letter, neatly written oqK
lined paper, was signed “JohnK;
Hinckley. ”
It was dated Monday, MsjrcK^
30. The time was 12:45 p.m. (j)n3£<
hour and forty minutes later, ;th<£^
president was shot.
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Pilot re-creates \ I
historic flight ^ |
United Press International
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Calvin Pitts kissed the ground after he
landed his single-engine plane at the end of a grueling round the world »<!
flight meant to retrace a historic trip made 50 years ago.
The 1931 flight by Wiley Post in the single-engine Winnie Mae took 2^
a record eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. It took Pitts two months and ^
one day. ^
Despite sophisticated navigation equipment and weathertracking
satellites, and despite Charles Lindbergh’s thermos bottle Pitts car- •*%
ried for luck, the Spirit of Winnie Mae fell victim to bureaucracy, yV
religious holidays, unfriendly guards, Russian tenacity and Mother ^
Nature. ®
“There were delays you couldn’t have invented if you sat down and
planned it,” Pitts said Monday after he eased out of his Beechcraft
Bonanza at New Hampshire’s largest airport.
“I had no perception that the air travel system could be as compjjy^
cated and demanding as it was,” he said. “At times it took us as long to
get out of an airport as it did to fly the next leg.
Pitts, of Sevema Park, Md., left from Grenier Field with navigat
Joseph Cunningham ofTulsa, Okla., June 23 after drinking a toast fn
the same thermos carried by Lindbergh, Post and other fam
aviators.
Problems began almost immediately, he said.
Cunningham developed chest pains. Pitts picked up another navi
tor in Newfoundland.
Over the Atlantic, a special radio broke, forcing the first change fn
Post’s original itinerary. Instead of England, Pitts flew to Germ
where he could get the equipment repaired.
It took weeks to obtain clearance to fly in Soviet airspace and
Russians refused to allow Pitts to land for refueling. It was impossi
for the small aircraft to travel 4,000 miles on one tank of gasoline
The crew detoured south to avoid the Soviet Union and landed
Athens, where they were met by armed guards, Pitts said. Befc
granting takeoff clearance, which took nearly a day, Greek authorit
locked up the plane’s propellers. 35
Pitts then landed in Egypt during the Moslem “Id” holiday w;
nary a chance of getting any fuel for two days.
At last, Pitts said, he departed for India, where monsoons ford
him to detour further south toward Australia and island hop his
across the Pacific.
Pitts covered 10,000 miles more than the 15,000 miles he
expected.
Post was killed in a 1935 plane crash. In addition to his pioneeri
flight, Post developed the first spacesuit with engineers from B.
Goodrich.
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