Podcast appearances and mentions of John W Hinckley

Show Notes Episode 444: “Ron, John and Jodie” This week Host Dave Bledsoe asks the bartender “You talking to me, are YOU talking to me?” when they ask him to pay for his drinks. (The bartender replied that he must be since he didn't see any other deadbeat drunks around there.) On the show this week we head back to 1981 when John Hinckley Jr had his shot at greatness and missed. (A very fine line is being walked) Along the way we discover why Dave is the sad lonely old man he is today. (He is afraid of girls!) Then we dive right into the events of March 30th 1981 when Organized Labor saved Ronald Reagan's life. (And STILL he fired those air traffic controllers!) We might John Warnock Hinckley Jr, a rich kid living the rich kid life in the mid 1970's. But then his life took a turn toward darkness (not becoming a stock broker, which is how most rich kids turned to darkness back then.) Follow along as John watches a movie and takes the entirely wrong message and then barks a wrong try by trying to woo a young  Jodie Foster. (She was gay THEN John!) Finally we talk about his trial and how it changed very, very little.  Our Sponsor this week is Boyd's Body Armor, because somebody probably wants to shoot you. We open with NBC Nightly News and close with J. Fla who wants you to not miss your shot. Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrq www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/DPJv5u1EcaM?si=bHA4Zs7RTvXojUTI We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: The First 100 Days: Reagan Pushed His Agenda of Tax Cuts and Less Government https://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/03/12/the-first-100-days-reagan-pushed-his-agenda-of-tax-cuts-and-less-government John Hinckley, Jr. brings infamy to Lubbock https://web.archive.org/web/20130925143644/http://www.lubbockcentennial.com/Section/1959_1983/hinckley.shtml The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. https://famous-trials.com/johnhinckley/537-home?__cf_chl_tk=FpBcrfEUItcGHJE40s26uuMJWXN8nEjNfUe3GY7mdMs-1711234800-0.0.1.1-1365 The John Hinckley Case https://www.crimelibrary.org/terrorists_spies/assassins/john_hinckley/4.html From Daniel M'Naughten to John Hinckley, A Brief History of the Insanity Defense https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crime/trial/history.html#:~:text=Before%20Hinckley%2C%20the%20burden%20of,the%20time%20of%20the%20crime. John Hinckley Jr., who once tried to kill Ronald Reagan, claims he is a victim of ‘cancel culture' after concert nixed: ‘Keeps happening' https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/john-hinckley-jr-claims-he-is-a-victim-of-cancel-culture-after-concert-called-off/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

     The insanity defense has always been a topic for debate. In this episode, we are going to learn some facts about what insanity is and how our criminal justice system defines it.  Pleading insanity is not as easy as you think.  We will give some true case examples of defendants who used the defense, some successfully....and some not.  A couple of those cases even changed our legal system.  Finally, should there be reform within the criminal justice system with this particular defense?  Welcome to Episode 31:  Non Compos Mentis-Not of Sound Mind.Thank you to our listeners!  Don't forget to give us a 5-Star Review!Show-Notes:The Insanity Defense Among the States - FindLawThe Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. (famous-trials.com)John and Lorena Bobbitt - WikipediaMan Cuts Off His Mother's Head And Takes Pictures (commonsensenation.net)Mens Rea - A Defendant's Mental State - FindLawNot Guilty Parcast:  Steven Steinberg Pt. 1&2:  SleepwalkerBeyond the ShadowsJoin us as we delve into our favorite dark tales and paranormal mysteries. Venture with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Today your historians of hysteria delves into the rabbit role of love, madness and music. Political intrigue, obsession and YouTube! Welcome, as the something perplexing podcast looks at John Hinkley Jr.'s life and happenings which seems to have these bases covered! === Why Me? | Esquire | DECEMBER 1982 John Hinckley's Letter to Jodie Foster Written Immediately Before Assassination (famous-trials.com) Flashback: What John Hinckley Jr. Wrote to Jodie Foster Before He Shot Ronald Reagan – The Hollywood Reporter Jodie Foster, John Hinckley, and the Ronald Reagan attempt (faroutmagazine.co.uk) Would-Be Reagan Assassin John Hinckley, Jr. Apologizes to Jodie Foster – Rolling Stone John Hinckley Jr. Apologizes To Jodie Foster, Victims' Families – Deadline The 'war on drugs' was always about racism - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) Hinckley-Bundy Correspondence : Maria Serban : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. (famous-trials.com)

"This is Today" features the stories that make this day unique. It’s Tuesday, April 27, 2021, and here is what we talk about today:National Prime Rib DayNational Devil Dog DayNational Tell a Story DayApollo 16John W. Hinckley, Jr.TornadoesHelp to support this podcast:Become a Patron!This post was proofread by Grammarly.Subscribe to Learning More Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Travis Daughtrey and Lee Flores discuss the day that John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot Ronald Reagan and three other people. This episode begins a series long discussion about the attempted assassination and the impact it had on all of the people affected, directly and indirectly.Support the show (http://patreon.com/crimeficionados)

Ione Cychosz’s life ended in the worst possible way. Her body was discovered in a vacant lot. She’d been beaten, stabbed, and bitten. There were no witnesses. And since it was the 80’s, investigators didn’t test for DNA. So they turned to a relatively new form of science — bite mark analysis. A forensic dentist examined the bite marks and told detectives that the killer was missing an upper front tooth. It didn’t take long for investigators to find 20-year-old Robert Lee Stinson. Robert lived near the crime scene and was missing a right front tooth. The detectives knew they had the right guy. There was just one problem: They didn’t. Then, Brandi tells us about the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Interestingly, when John Hinckley Jr. set out to murder Ronald Reagan, he didn’t have a political agenda. In fact, John later admitted that he opened fire on the president in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster. He’d become obsessed with Jodie ever since he saw her in the movie Taxi Driver. His trial drew worldwide attention and forever changed the way we look at insanity pleas. And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases. In this episode, Kristin pulled from: “False Positive: When Forensic Science Fails,” Vox video “Robert Lee Stinson,” National Registry of Exonerations “Robert Lee Stinson case,” Wikipedia “Robert Lee Stinson,” Innocence Project “Innocent man piecing life together after conviction,” by Dinesh Ramde for the Associated Press “A long ride for me,” by Dinesh Ramde and Todd Richmond for the Associated Press “Man sentenced to life for murder,” Associated Press In this episode, Brandi pulled from: “The John Hinckley Case” by Denise Noe, Crime Library “The Trial of John W. Hinckley Jr.” Famous-Trials.com “John Hinckley Jr.” wikipedia.org        

Finale: The Reagan Years (Pantheon Books)From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate,  comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times. Finale takes readers to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986; the wealthiest enclaves of southern California; and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Along with Soviet dissidents, illegal arms traders, and antinuclear activists, the novel's memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with whom the president long ago appeared on screen. Several figures including a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan become the eyes through which readers see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a clash of ideologies, and a political revolution. At the center of it all but forever out of reach is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him.Thomas Mallon is the author of nine novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, andWatergate. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Atlantic, and he was the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Vursell prize for exceptional prose style. He has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C. James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz,and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover. These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. His newest novel, Perfidia, is the first novel of the Second L.A. Quartet, Ellroy’s fictional history of Los Angeles during World War II.