The Story Of The Attempted Assassination Of President Ronald Reagan By John Warnock Hinckley Jr

The scene of John Warnock Hinckley Jr was secured shortly after shooting Ronald Reagan. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Ronald Reagan's life worth two in the world of politics. The Hollywood star managed to swerve from actor to politician. He was able to be elected governor of California. The position is like a perfect cushion for Reagan to become US President and succeeded.

He enjoyed his position. He also enjoys being in the community. This condition turned out to be a gap for John Warnock Hinckley Jr to launch his evil act. He wanted to kill Reagan. He managed to shoot Reagan and shocked the whole country of Uncle Sam and the world.

The path of success initiated by Ronald Wilson Reagan is close to perfect value. The man who was born in Tampico, Illinois, February 6, 1911, successfully completed his studies as a scholar in economics and sociology at Eureka College, Illinois, USA.

This success did not necessarily make him want to work like most Americans. He chose to enter the entertainment world. He was once a radio announcer. The career made him try new challenges as an actor.

Challenges as an actor in non-seeded films are also being played. His career continues to climb by being part of films that have the potential for a box office. His face became known to the US public. His films began to accumulate and be played everywhere.

He managed to star in more than 50 films during his 20s in the acting world. Reagan immediately made a decision. He tried to get out of his comfort zone. Reagan chose to swerve from Hollywood stars to politics.

At first he started his political career as a cadre from the Democratic Party. However, later he turned to the Republican Party. He took advantage of the party as his political vehicle to advance in the election for the Governor of California in 1966.

His efforts to raise the masses were not so difficult. His figure has gone ahead of the buana on the glass. This condition makes it difficult for Californians to know him. The pinnacle of being loved by scholars arrived. Reagan managed to win. Reagan then served as Governor of California from 1967-1975.

His political career did not end. He looked at the political contestation at the high level of the US Presidential Election. At first he did not get elected as a presidential candidate representing the Republican Party. However, in the 1980 Presidential Election Reagan got the opportunity.

The figure, who is already known by the US as an actor and former governor of California, made his name rise. He also succeeded in becoming the new US President in 1981.

Reigan when inaugurated on January 20, 1981, will be the oldest person to ever lead the world's most powerful country. The Republican Party's apparent victory went far beyond estimates made by polls and it was clear that a large number of voters who had doubts until the last minute had supported the Reagan camp a lot, said Harold Jackson and Alex Brummer in a report in The Guardian newspaper entitled A landslide makes it President Reagan (1980).

Activities as the number one person in the US are starting to be enjoyed by Reagan. He began to listen a lot to the complaints of the US people to get an view to formulate economic policies. This condition made him often appear in the midst of society.

Reagan does have many political enemies. Mainly from the group Jimmy Carter who lost. However, it was unexpectedly that Reagan was the target of an attempted murder by a stressed young man, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. In fact, his leadership was only around the age of corn or 69 days as US President.

The stressed young man tried to penetrate the crowd at the Hilton Hotel yard in Washington on March 30, 1981. John then fired six shots from a 22-caliber gun towards Reagan. At that time John and Reagan were only three meters away.

The bullet not only injured Reagan close to his heart. However, John's shot also injured three other people: White House press secretary, secret service agent, and police officer. John was immediately arrested and detained. Meanwhile, Reagan and others were immediately rushed to the hospital.

Information was also being explored while Reagan received intensive care at the hospital. In fact, it is known that John's motive for trying to kill Reagan was not political. John wants to kill Reagan as a form of his love for film star Jodie Foster.

At first he got the crazy idea of killing the president from the filmTaxi Driver (1976). The film tells the story of a Vietnamese War veteran, Travis (Robert de Niro) who becomes a taxi driver. Travis had wanted to amaze his partner through the senator's murder plan which later became a US presidential candidate.

The attempted murder failed. Travis fled and finished off the prostitution business actor where the teenage homeless woman (WTS), Iris Steensma (Jodie Foster). The storyline inspired John. He is a convert to idolizing Jodie Foster.

John followed in the footsteps of Jodie Foster everywhere. However, Jodie did not consider it. The letters were not answered. John did not run out of sense. One last letter that had not been sent implies his wish toultimatum Jodie: if you don't love me, I will kill the President.

The motive is said to be too ridiculous. However, that's how it is. John is considered to have a mental disorder (crazy). John's parents also tried to help their child by renting the best defense team including mental experts who decided that John was suffering from mental disorders.

As a result, John was declared free in court in June 1982. The basis of the free decision is the same as in other countries: crazy people cannot be tried. John was released and immediately handed over to a mental hospital under strict guard.

Later, the US court will officially stop watching John in 2022. He also just really felt free. He had time to write down his feelings via Twitter / X account @JohnHinckley20. He wrote: After 41 years, two months, and 15 days, he was finally released.

The authorities in the first investigation of the case pointed out the possibility that John imagined Ronald Reagan had insulted Jodie Foster. And apparently he, with that fantasy, acted to defend his girlfriend.

"Jodie Foster herself is confused: I've never met that person, talked to him or had any relationship with him. John is poor and dangerous. My friend Reagan is cured. Even though no one will know if John will recover," wrote a Tempo magazine report entitled Cinta, Politics, or Gintingan? (1981).