{"id":1586975,"date":"2022-08-03T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586975"},"modified":"2022-08-03T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:36:21","slug":"library-backs-out-from-hosting-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/library-backs-out-from-hosting-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Backs Out From Hosting Reagan Assassin John Hinckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Flibrary-backs-out-from-hosting-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley%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=1586975&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Concert nixed following a Free Beacon inquiry<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWould-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. and the aftermath of his attempt on Ronald Reagan \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> \u2022 August 3, 2022 11:30 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Following an inquiry from the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, a\u00a0Virginia public library nixed an upcoming concert from the man who tried to assassinate former president Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>The Williamsburg Regional Library told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that although John Hinckley had every right as a Virginia resident to reserve its theater for a musical performance, the library canceled the show after concluding that &#8220;the event would be disruptive to operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation comes after Hinckley <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/JohnHinckley20\/status\/1554518331784298501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that he would be performing at the Virginia library&#8217;s theater in November. Hinckley suggested that his followers on Twitter &#8220;arrive early&#8221; as the theater only seats 268 people.<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley attempted to kill Reagan with a handgun two months into his presidency, leaving the former president, a police officer, a Secret Service agent, and Reagan&#8217;s press secretary with serious injuries. Hinckley was confined to a psychiatric hospital from 1982 to 2016 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in a psychiatric hospital, Hinckley recorded music and took up painting. Some of his songs include &#8220;We Have Got That Chemistry&#8221; and &#8220;The Majesty of Love.&#8221; Law enforcement concluded that Hinckley&#8217;s motivation for trying to kill Reagan was a desire to impress actress Jodie Foster.<\/p>\n<p>After a judge granted his unconditional release in June, Hinckley began sharing his interest in Democratic Party politics on social media. In July, he <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/JohnHinckley20\/status\/1551616391173885952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> that he believes in &#8220;equity, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, animal rights, race mixing, assault weapon ban, sharing the wealth, Green New Deal, Black Lives Matter, Prison reform and good rock \u2018n&#8217; roll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Hinckley, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> is working on a profile about him. On July 30, Hinckley said the newspaper sent a photographer to his home.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Concert nixed following a Free Beacon inquiry  Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. and the aftermath of his attempt on Ronald Reagan \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1586975","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\/1586975","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}