John Hinckley, the man who sought to assassinate President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, has been granted unconditional release from his psychiatric confinement by a federal judge. If all goes as expected, Hinckley will be leaving where he chooses, coming and going as he pleases, as of June 2022, forty years after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a jury in Washington D.C. Hinckley was born in May 1955 to a wealthy family in the oil business. He was not yet 26, then, when he shot and severely injured President Reagan and three other people -- a police officer, a secret service agent, and Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady. Hinckley was infatuated with the actress Jodie Foster, best known at the time for the 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which it is precisely infatuation with Jodie Foster’s character (as above) that causes the character played by Robert De Niro to attempt a political assassination. Hinckley wrote Foster a letter,...