WASHINGTON -- The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting. A spokeswoman for the ...

John Hinckley Jr. following his arraignment in 1981. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Almost no one had ever heard of John Hinckley Jr. before he tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan over a ...

The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full-time in Virginia, a judge has ruled. John Hinckley Jr. is ready to live ...

Williamsburg resident and would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. has walked back on another publicly announced plan tied to his music-industry ambitions. He will not be playing a Feb. 1 free ...

Less Notice When Hinckley Leaves Hospital. A federal judge gave doctors for John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, more flexibility to help Mr. Hinckley, ...

John Hinckley Jr., the attempted assassin of former President Ronald Reagan, declared that he was scrapping his plans to open a music store after receiving negative publicity. On Dec. 2, Hinckley, who ...

The famous courtroom sketches of John Hinckley Jr., President Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin, are back in public and up for auction this week. Alexander Historical Auctions expects the 28 mostly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge deciding whether President Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin can live full-time outside a mental hospital said Tuesday that it’s a “very hard decision,” but one he knew he ...

John Hinckley Jr, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has denounced the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. “Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,” Hinckley wrote on X on ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside a Washington, D.C.

Feds claim John Hinckley has a bevy of girlfriends that he's trying to impress. June 19, 2008— -- John Hinckley Jr., the lovestruck gunman who shot President Ronald Reagan in a bizarre attempt to ...