John Hinckley, Jr. is freed from court oversight, concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals, after the shooting of President Reagan in 1981.
"After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!," he wrote on Twitter shortly after 12 p.m.
Freedom for Hinckley was originally slated to include giving a concert — he plays guitar and sings — in Brooklyn, New York, in July. But the concert venue, the Market Hotel,that it is cancelling the event after experiencing"some very real and worsening threats and hate." U.S. Marshalls escort John Hinckley Jr. as he returns to a marine base via helicopter in Quantico, Virginia, on August 8, 1981."If Hinckley had succeeded in killing Reagan, then he would have been a pivotal historical figure," H.W. Brands, a historian and Reagan biographer, wrote in an email to The Associated Press."As it is, he is a misguided soul whom history has already forgotten.
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