John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is an American man who attempted to assassinate the United States. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. on the 30th of March 1981 two months after Reagan’s first inauguration. Using a .22 caliber revolver, he wounded Reagan, police officer Thomas Delahanty, and Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy. He critically wounded Press Secretary James Brady, who was permanently disabled in the shooting and died from his injuries 33 years later.

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John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and moved with his wealthy family to Dallas, Texas at the age of four. His father was John Warnock Hinckley who was the chairman and president of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation. His mother was Jo Ann Moore Hinckley. He was born on the 29th of May 1955 and he is 67 years old.

He grew up in University Park, Texas, and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas County. After graduating from high school in 1974, his family, owners of the Hinckley oil company and moved to Evergreen, Colorado where the new company headquarters was located. He was an off-and-on student at Texas Tech University from 1974 to 1980 but eventually dropped out. In 1975, he went to Los Angeles in the hope of becoming a songwriter. His efforts were unsuccessful, and he wrote to his parents with tales of misfortune and pleas for money. He also spoke of a girlfriend, Lynn Collins, who turned out to be a fabrication. In September 1976, he returned to his parents’ home in Evergreen. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, He began purchasing weapons and practicing with them. He was prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers to deal with his emotional problems.

He is not married. During his time at ‘St. Elisabeth’s Hospital,’ he was reportedly in a relationship with a girl named Leslie Deveau, who was also a patient.

He has two siblings whose names are Diane Hinckley and Scott Hinckley.