Talk:John Hinckley Jr./Archive 2007

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Cultural references

Hinckley is one of the assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins, in which he sings a folk ballad, "Unworthy of Your Love", professing his love to Foster. The song is a duet with Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme who was cult leader Charles Manson's most loyal disciple. Lynette Fromme had herself previously failed to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Hinkley had a copy of Catcher in the Rye on him at the time of his assassination attempt. He is said to have been influenced by Mark Chapman (killer of John Lennon).

Hinckley is mentioned in the film Six Degrees of Separation in a monologue on Catcher in the Rye.

There is a band called JFA (Jodie Foster's Army), a song by the band Crucifucks named "Hinckley Had A Vision", and a song by Pittsburgh punk band Caustic Christ called "Doesn't Anyone Want to Impress Jodie Foster Anymore?"

Also, Canadian anarcho-punk band Rebel Spell mentions him in a song about Mark David Chapman, John Lennon, and a conspiracy theory that posits that Chapman murdered the ex-Beatle on orders from the C.I.A., called "December 1980"; one of the lyrics is "John Hinkley Jr. My hero. Shoot straight, next time shoot straight."

The 1980s hardcore punk band Ism recorded a song entitled "John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Foster Done To You?)" on The Big Apple Rotten To The Core hardcore punk compilation. It includes the lyrics: "First Lincoln, then Kennedy, but Reagan got away/So you stood near the Hilton/With a gun in your hand/Waiting for Reagan/Even the mentally ill can calculate and premeditate plans." The song was later released on the Ism debut LP A Diet For The Worms which soared to #65 on Progressive radio charts.

In the Family Guy episode "Model Misbehavior," Hinckley fires the gun to start a boat race, and then Foster shows up saying that she was impressed by the way he fired the gun and maybe she has changed her view of him, as well as of all men.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Pitch," Jerry Seinfeld remarks, "Give my best to Hinckley," after having an odd conversation with "Crazy" Joe Davola.

In an episode of "Gilmore Girls", Luke Dane says, "and they told me to start writing letters to Jodie Foster!".

A song called "I Desire" appears on Devo's fifth album, Oh, No! It's Devo, which features lyrics by and based upon John Hinckley's songs to Jodie Foster.

One New Jersey metal/hardcore group named themselves John Hinckley.

A character in Richard Linklater's 1991 independent film Slacker is said to "look like John Hinckley". The character is a disgruntled graduate student who holds his thesis committee hostage.

In the American Dad episode "The Best Christmas Story Never," Stan is taken back in time to the 1970s where he convinces Martin Scorsese to quit drugs which results in Taxi Driver never being made. This results in an alternate future in which John Hinckley never attempts to assassinate Ronald Reagan, and Walter Mondale becomes President of the United States and soon after hands over power to Soviets.

The 1980's Wall of Voodoo hit Far Side of Crazy is sung from the point of view of John Hinckley Jr. and incorporates Hinckley's poetry as well as lines such as "I shot an actor for an actress who lived to tell a joke."

The song "Hey Judas" on Carmaig de Forest's album "I Shall Be Released", a condemnation of Reagan, contains the line "John, you did a bad thing when you missed."

Moved these all to John Hinckley, Jr. in popular culture. --Wasted Sapience 15:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Press Secretary James Brady suffered traumatic head injury

James Brady was shot in the head during the assassination attempt, and I don’t think our article is near clear enough about that. It states “although Brady was paralyzed,” which rather makes it sound like he had gotten shot in the chest or abdomen.

I remember a news segment several years after the assassination attempt, which gave an update, and showed Brady having a pleasant Sunday watching a Chicago Bears football game on TV at his home. I got the idea that the man was still largely there, but that he has lost some of his cognitive facilities. It’s like any traumatic head injury, the person is going to have to rebuild their life, and it’s going to be a different life. FriendlyRiverOtter 21:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

The following is a link to a January 22, 2006, CBS interview with Jim and Sarah Brady. The bullet caused extensive damage to the right frontal lobe of Jim’s brain which caused paralysis to the left side of his body (remember, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, and vice versa). [1] --FriendlyRiverOtter 00:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and added a summary of the above to our article. I would also like to later add a little bit on secret service agent Tim McCarthy and police officer Tom Delehanty. I think it would help the flow of our article to say just a few things: how each man was injuried, how completely he recovered, whether he went back to duty, what he might have done after law enforcement and/or what part of the country he later retired to. Besides adding good texture to the article, this would also be respectful to the individuals involved. Yeah, in these kind of life and death situations, I do think there should be a certain type of democracy, that all count. FriendlyRiverOtter 23:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Officer Tom Delehanty

Our wiki article states that Washington, D.C. police officer Thomas Delehanty made a full recovery. However, it also states that he later retired on a full disability pension. This situation needs some kind of explanation. And per the above, I do think we should include a couple of sentences on each of the persons injuried. FriendlyRiverOtter 19:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Mugshot

Is there not a mugshot that could be used for this article? --Ichabod (talk) 04:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)