Talk:John Hinckley Jr./Archive 2012

John Judge on the Reagan assassination attempt

Judge is a researcher and director of COPA, the Committee on Political Assassinations, in Washington D.C.

John Judge was interviewed in November of 2000 on this subject - I've included an excerpt from the interview http://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/112600.html 36hourblock (talk) 21:24, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

First of all, I removed that huge block of text; it was a definite copyright violation. You can't just copy and past half an interview on to a talk page. Secondly, the idea that Bush had something to do with the attempted assassination is a ridiculous fringe theory and as thus is not making it anywhere on this page. It is a big leap from "a member of the Bush family met this guy from the Hinckley family once" to what that "researcher" is saying. No reputable reliable source has made such a claim to my knowledge. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 21:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Scalper - I agree with you that John Judge has not made his case; it's merely hearsay. And the copyright violation is tempered by the fact that John Judge would welcome the use of the interiview in the talk section. I'll have him contact you on the matter if you like.

Wikipedia administrators let this kind of stuff slide when they approve of the opinions posted here: it's not a secret. Your quotation (presumably from the Judge interview) - "a member of the Bush family met this guy from the Hinckley family once" - is pure fabrication. He never said this.

To say that you are unaware of any sources that G.H.W. Bush was involved in the attempt on Reagan's life is reasonable. To say that the "idea" of such involvement is "ridiculous" is a form of original research. Who says that no sources exist? Kindly provide them, sir.

I've made my point; thank you for retaining the interview address with John Judge. 36hourblock (talk) 19:10, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

No, you haven't made any point at all. Advancing some weird circular logic and extreme fringe crackpot theories have no place in the article. HammerFilmFan (talk) 17:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Erotomania

Perhaps some more information on this is needed. Am I right in thinking that the erotomaniac already believes that there is some sort of, perhaps secret, relationship between himself and the person on whom he is fixated, often "proved" to him by delusions of reference, so to speak? And if Jody Foster was already in love with him, why the need for the grand gesture of killing Reagan? Was it erotomania or simply a misestimation of Foster's reaction? How did Hinckley believe Foster felt about him at the time and how do we separate this from the known fact that men accused or convicted of the most appalling murders do receive feminine fan-mail in the clink? --Daniel C. Boyer 20:35, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hinckley wasn't erotomanic. He was in love with Foster, but did not believe she was in love with him. He thought she didn't want him because he was a nobody, whereas she was a famous actress. He thought that by killing the President, it would have made him a public figure, thereby putting him on a level with her. He thought then he would have had a good chance that she would love him. This sounds ridiculous, but he is a schizophrenic who has narcissistic personality disorder. He has delusions due to his schizophrenia. Cluster B personality disordered people are risk takers who go to considerable lengths to obtain what they want. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim Michael (talk • contribs) 22:59, 22 September 2012 (UTC)