The Nation - News from Feb. 28, 1986
John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Reagan in March, 1981, asked a federal judge to permit him to leave St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington for one day a month and spend it in the city. Hinckley also asked U.S. Judge Barrington D. Parker to move him from the maximum security ward where he has been to a less restrictive ward at the hospital. Hinckley has been confined by reason of mental illness.
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