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Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. embarks on new journey: a songwriting career and selling art on eBay
Richmond.com ^ | 05/12/2023 | Sian Wilkerson, Daily Press

Posted on 05/12/2023 1:58:39 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

More than 40 years after he tried to kill the president, John Hinckley Jr. is trying to to forge a new path.

In 1982, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after shooting and wounding President Ronald Reagan, as well as the White House press secretary, a Secret Service agent and a Washington police officer.

Then 27, Hinckley was committed by the court to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he lived until 2016, when the court granted him convalescent leave, allowing him to live with his mother in the gated Kingsmill community outside of Williamsburg. He continued to live under court restrictions until last June, when he was fully released.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; ebay; hinckley; reagan
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Selling art like john Wayne gacy I see
1 posted on 05/12/2023 1:58:39 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only one is a murderer and the other one is just an attempted murderer.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 1:59:55 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He needs to change his last name to “Biden”.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 2:03:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Hinckley should court and marry Rachel Dolezal.

They could sell weirdo trinkets and "art" on Etsy and eBay. As a power couple they could recruit other "artists" for their "collective", like Hunter Biden and Ron Reagan Jr.

4 posted on 05/12/2023 2:04:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For what it is worth, at least when you buy from Hunter Biden, you obtain some promises.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 2:05:02 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: No name given

“Only one is a murderer and the other one is just an attempted murderer.”

John Hinckley Jr. is a murderer.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 2:05:24 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where would this guy be today if he’d shot Obama?

What a sick justice system.


7 posted on 05/12/2023 2:06:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, art sales is working for a Hunter Biden. Why not for this guy as well


8 posted on 05/12/2023 2:06:39 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Go Woke, Go Broke. Every Time Trump Says Something, I'm Closer to Anyone But Trump.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

” ...like Hunter Biden and Ron Reagan Jr. ...

You totally have a handle on the current state of “The Art”.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 2:06:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

or hunter biden.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 2:07:12 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A new rap artist


11 posted on 05/12/2023 2:07:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He will probably find a lucrative market for his Art, regardless of how that Art appears. The novelty and notoriety aspects for certain collectors will automatically add some degree of dollar value to whatever Hickley produces.

There are collectors for objects that can be proved to have belonged to Jesse James, Billy The Kid and John Dillinger, as examples. The fact that they killed innocent people does not seem to deter the public from being interested.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 2:10:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Jody Foster never did call John Hinckley after the assassination attempt. It was supposed to have been Hinckley’s big bid for Jodie’s affections.

Some girls are just hard to impress.


13 posted on 05/12/2023 2:20:43 PM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, hinckley, I hear biden was sniffing Jody Foster’s hair.


14 posted on 05/12/2023 2:28:21 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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If his art is anything like his singing, it sucks.

Not even a decent amateur.

15 posted on 05/12/2023 2:29:48 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If he wants to be a songwriter, he might write something like Bad Man's Blunder.
16 posted on 05/12/2023 2:33:49 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hinckley and Hunter should team-up.


17 posted on 05/12/2023 2:36:07 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: TangoLimaSierra
"If his art is anything like his singing, it sucks."

His obsession with Jody Foster has apparently moved on to Yoko Ono.

18 posted on 05/12/2023 2:38:04 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: ChicagoConservative27
His parents must live with regret to this day.

They were very wealthy, but kicked their mentally ill son out of the house based on the often flawed theory of Tough Love.

Hinckley destroyed James Brady's life with a head shot, and almost killed Reagan and a Secret Service agent.

19 posted on 05/12/2023 2:39:51 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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James Brady eventually died from the shooting.


20 posted on 05/12/2023 2:57:21 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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