{"id":1519021,"date":"2022-06-16T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519021"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:49:42","slug":"not-worth-a-gamble-nyc-music-venue-cancels-performance-by-john-hinckley-jr-the-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-worth-a-gamble-nyc-music-venue-cancels-performance-by-john-hinckley-jr-the-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Worth A Gamble\u2019: NYC Music Venue Cancels Performance By John Hinckley Jr., The Man Who Tried To Assassinate Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-worth-a-gamble-nyc-music-venue-cancels-performance-by-john-hinckley-jr-the-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-reagan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, began his unconditional release on Wednesday, and immediately tried to enter the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Hinckley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnHinckley20\/status\/1533107600966950913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">posted<\/a> an email address on Twitter for anyone who wants to \u201cbook a show or other offers\u201d with him. While still serving his sentence for attempting to assassinate the president, Hinckley began posting original and cover songs to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCck3J5KR3INUP1K-hrBe8iA\/videos\">YouTube channel<\/a>, which now has nearly 30,000 subscribers. Before he even began his unconditional release, he had booked a show at Market Hotel in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, however, the venue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ce1OeRErG1x\/\">announced<\/a> that it had canceled Hinckley\u2019s performance, citing alleged \u201cthreats and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do believe that ex-cons and people with mental illness can recover, and that we <em>should<\/em> want them to maintain hope that they can better themselves and earn a chance to fully rejoin society,\u201d the venue wrote in a lengthy Instagram post. \u201c[B]ut we are living in dangerous times, and after being presented with and reflecting on some very real and worsening threats and hate facing our vulnerable communities \u2013 our family here in nightlife \u2013 and after seeing the nature of who this booking has antagonized, and who and what else those same folks are upset about: we don\u2019t see the need to allow someone who did something awful to skip the line and play even our middle size independent community stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The venue also acknowledged that Hinckley \u201cwouldn\u2019t have sold the tickets without the story of who [he is] and the violent thing [he] did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were going to host an event for the principle, and potentially put others at risk in doing so, it shouldn\u2019t be for some stunt booking \u2014 no offense to the artist,\u201d the venue added. \u201cWe might feel differently if we believed the music was important and transcended the infamy, but that\u2019s just not the case here (though any artist can get there \u2014 even someone who committed awful crimes and suffered mental illness).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not worth a gamble on the safety of our vulnerable communities to give a guy a microphone and a paycheck from his art who hasn\u2019t had to earn it, who we don\u2019t care about on an artistic level, and who upsets people in a dangerously radicalized, reactionary climate,\u201d the venue concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan on March 30, 1981, later claiming he did so to get actress Jodie Foster\u2019s attention. Reagan was wounded enough to spend 12 days in a hospital, after a bullet ricocheted off the presidential limousine and struck him under his left arm. Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and policeman Thomas Delahanty were also wounded in the shooting, The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/time-to-rock-and-roll-would-be-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley-freed-announces-music-debut\">reported<\/a>. Brady, who died in 2014, spent the rest of his life partially paralyzed due to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2016, Hinckley was given permission to live full-time with his mother, but was still required to attend therapy and had travel restrictions. On June 15, 2022, he began his unconditional release, writing on Twitter: \u201cAfter 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnHinckley20\/status\/1537105834571976704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, began his unconditional release on Wednesday, and immediately tried to enter the music industry. Earlier this month, Hinckley posted an email address on Twitter for anyone who wants to \u201cbook a show or other offers\u201d with him. While still serving his sentence for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1519132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}