Ronald Reagan’s Would-Be Murderer
I Turned Jodie Foster Lesbian
Printed
John Hinckley Jr., the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, is satisfied he is the rationale Jodie Foster is sexually interested in different girls.
John tells TMZ he has a principle that his failed Reagan assassination try in 1981 traumatized Jodie to the purpose the place she turned away from males and have become a lesbian. He believes Jodie’s trauma additionally stemmed from him bringing her into his assassination try together with his public fascination of her.
He says Jodie was relationship males within the early Eighties and solely grew to become a lesbian within the years after he tried to shoot Reagan useless. Jodie first got here out publicly as homosexual in the course of the 2013 Golden Globes Awards. John says that is the primary time he is ever revealed this principle publicly as he promotes his new memoir, “John Hinckley Jr.: Who I Actually Am.”
John says he was obsessive about Jodie ever since 1976, when he noticed her within the movie “Taxi Driver” … and when she was attending Yale College, he went to the school registrar’s workplace and bought her dorm quantity and cellphone quantity, and would name her and slip poems beneath her door.
He says he by no means requested Jodie out on a date as a result of she did not appear … and in his despair, delusion and obsession, he thought he “may impress Jodie by killing the president.”
John says he was hung up on Jodi and “Taxi Driver” … and he noticed himself as Travis Bickle from the film, the character who needs to shoot a presidential candidate after being spurned by his love curiosity.
Within the film, Travis doesn’t shoot the candidate … as a substitute, he finally ends up as a neighborhood hero for killing the boys exploiting Jodie’s character, Iris, a younger prostitute … and his love curiosity appears impressed.
John tried to recreate that in actual life … and says he thought if he shot Reagan, he may win over Jodie … so he took a bus from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in March 1981 on a mission to assassinate Reagan.
He says he offered two .38 caliber weapons to pay for his bus ticket and D.C. lodging … and he went to the Hilton Lodge, the place Reagan was giving a speech, armed with a .22 caliber revolver.
John was in a crowd exterior when Reagan and his entourage arrived … and he thought Reagan was waving at him, which startled him earlier than he waved again.
He says he waited for Reagan to go away after the speech … and when RR walked previous him, he brandished his revolver and squeezed off six photographs inside seconds … wounding Reagan, police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and White Home Press Secretary James Brady.
John says he thought he could be killed by the Secret Service … however the crowd turned on him, leaping on him and beating him up till the SS cuffed him and took him to jail.
He was discovered not responsible by purpose of madness and despatched to a psychological establishment for over 30 years … and John tells us the jury bought his verdict appropriate.
John says he is been on anti-depressants for a few years … and, at the moment, he is voluntarily taking Zoloft and Risperdal for anxiousness.
We reached out to Jodie’s camp … they declined to remark.
