Failed Assassins of United States Presidents - Cipriano Ferrandini, Francisco Martin Duran, Frank Eugene Corder, George Atzerodt, Giuseppe Zangara, Gri (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: Cipriano Ferrandini, Francisco Martin Duran, Frank Eugene Corder, George Atzerodt, Giuseppe Zangara, Griselio Torresola, John Flammang Schrank, John Hinckley, Jr., Lynette Fromme, Oscar Collazo, Raymond Lee Harvey, Richard Lawrence (failed assassin), Richard Paul Pavlick, Samuel Byck, Sara Jane Moore, Vladimir Arutyunian. Excerpt: John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. (born May 29, 1955) attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, as the culmination of an effort to impress teen actress Jodie Foster. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and has remained under institutional psychiatric care since then. Public outcry over the verdict led to the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984. John W. Hinckley, Jr., was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and moved with his family to Dallas, Texas, at the age of four. His father was John Warnock Hinckley, Sr., who was president of World Vision United States, and Chairman and President of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, and his mother was Jo Ann Moore Hinckley. He has two older siblings - sister Diane and brother Scott. Scott Hinckley later graduated from Vanderbilt University and became Vice President of his father's oil business, while his sister graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Hinckley grew up in University Park, Texas, and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas County. During his grade school years, he played football, basketball, learned to play the piano, and was elected class president twice. After Hinckley graduated in 1973 from his Texas high school, the family, owners of the Hinckley oil company, moved to Evergreen, Colorado, where the new company headquarters was located (Hansell & Damour, 2005). An off-and-on student at Texas Tech University from 1974 to 1980, in 1975 he went to Los Angeles in the...