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Part 5: John Hinckley Jr Tried to Take Own Life After Life Sentence for Shooting President Reagan
Part 1: John Hinckley Jr on Plan to Get Jodie Foster to Fall in Love with Him by Shooting President
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John Hinckley Jr. sits down with Vlad to discuss a surprising chapter from the mid-1980s: his brief prison correspondence with Ted Bundy while Bundy was on death row before his 1989 execution. Hinckley says he reached out because both men were “infamous,” but describes the letters as mundane and calls the decision “poor judgment,” making clear he viewed Bundy as a horrible person.
The conversation also covers Hinckley’s 22-year relationship with Lesley, who continued visiting him after leaving the hospital, and why government scrutiny eventually ended their relationship. Hinckley reflects on decades inside a psychiatric hospital, comparisons to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, witnessing patient abuse, seclusion, shackling, heavy tranquilization, and occasional altercations with other patients. He also addresses the Reagan shooting, mental illness, accountability, and life under intense public and government attention.
