{"id":1530361,"date":"2022-06-28T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530361"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:04:18","slug":"john-hinckley-jr-says-reagan-was-a-good-president-is-glad-assassination-attempt-did-not-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-hinckley-jr-says-reagan-was-a-good-president-is-glad-assassination-attempt-did-not-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hinckley Jr. Says Reagan Was \u2018A Good President,\u2019 Is Glad Assassination Attempt \u2018Did Not Succeed\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fjohn-hinckley-jr-says-reagan-was-a-good-president-is-glad-assassination-attempt-did-not-succeed%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=1530361&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-hinckley-jr\">man who attempted to assassinate<\/a> President Ronald Reagan more than four decades ago, said Tuesday in his first televised interview that he has \u201cremorse\u201d for what he did and is glad his attempt to kill Reagan \u201cdid not succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan on March 30, 1981, and later claimed he did so to gain the attention of actress Jodie Foster,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-worth-a-gamble-nyc-music-venue-cancels-performance-by-john-hinckley-jr-the-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-reagan\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. A bullet ricocheted off the presidential limousine and struck Reagan about an inch from his heart. Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and policeman Thomas Delahanty were injured in the shooting, too; Brady lived partially paralyzed from the attack, until he later died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel terrible for what I did, and I\u2019ve had remorse for many years for what I did, and if I could take it all back, I would,\u201d Hinckley told CBS Mornings. \u201cI swear, I would take it all back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reagan was \u201ca nice man and a good president,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley said he would like forgiveness from the Reagan family and the families of the others he injured, though he doesn\u2019t expect to receive it. \u201cThey probably can\u2019t, but I wish they would,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have true remorse for what I did. I know they probably can\u2019t forgive me now, but I just want them to know that I am sorry for what I did,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m glad I did not succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not have a good heart. I was doing things that a good person does not do,\u201d Hinckley said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News\u2019 chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett said Hinckley told him he takes two psychotropic pills per day, after CBS host Gayle King noted the near-assassin\u00a0\u201cseemed heavily medicated\u201d during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been the most scrutinized person in the entire mental health system for 41 years,\u201d Hinckley told Garrett.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old allegedly tried to kill himself on two occasions while in psychiatric care. \u201cOne was a hanging, and one was an overdose of pills,\u201d Hinckley said.<\/p>\n<p>His release is \u201cjustice,\u201d Hinckley claimed.\u00a0\u201cI was not just a cold, calculating criminal in 1981,\u201d but mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychologically, that person is dead,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a completely different person in mind and spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley\u2019s conditioned release started in 2016, and restrictions have since been removed. The Daily Wire noted on June 15, 2022, when Hinckley began his unconditional release, he posted on Twitter, \u201cAfter 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Pres. Reagan and three others \u2014 now, he&#8217;s been granted unconditional freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He says he wants to show that decades of mental health treatment have made him an \u201cordinary guy who\u2019s just trying to get along like everybody else.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nj8w4WX3I1\">pic.twitter.com\/Nj8w4WX3I1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSMornings\/status\/1541783026115518465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/ashe-schow\">Ashe Schow<\/a> contributed to this report\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-worth-a-gamble-nyc-music-venue-cancels-performance-by-john-hinckley-jr-the-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-reagan\">\u2018Not Worth A Gamble\u2019: NYC Music Venue Cancels Performance By John Hinckley Jr., The Man Who Tried To Assassinate\u00a0Reagan<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan more than four decades ago, said Tuesday in his first televised interview that he has \u201cremorse\u201d for what he did and is glad his attempt to kill Reagan \u201cdid not succeed.\u201d Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan on March 30, 1981, and later claimed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1530413,"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-1530361","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\/1530361","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}