US September 12, 2016 John Hinckley Jr. leaves DC mental hospital for Virginia The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting.
White House September 12, 2016 James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and later became an advocate for gun control, has died. He was 73.
MENTAL HEALTH September 8, 2016 Hinckley release: Mental illness, not a gun, almost cost us Reagan's life John Hinckley, now 61, who attempted to assassinate President Reagan, is being freed from a psychiatric hospital to live full-time with his mother in Virginia.