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In this VladTV interview, John Hinckley Jr. looks back on his Dallas upbringing, Texas Tech years, and early struggles with depression and delusions before the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley discusses moving to Hollywood to pursue music, becoming fixated on Martin Scorsese’s *Taxi Driver*, and identifying with Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle. He explains how his obsession with Jodie Foster grew after the film, leading him to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he left notes and called her. Hinckley says he developed the delusional belief that shooting a president would “impress” Foster and create a “magical union” with her, first focusing on Jimmy Carter and later trailing Reagan. The conversation also touches on his trial evidence, the recorded phone calls, his brief interest in the American Nazi Party, and the 35 years he spent in a mental hospital.
