The Nation - News from April 17, 1987
The father of John W. Hinckley Jr. said that his son wrote a serial killer simply “as one human being to another” and that the hospital’s denial of an Easter trip allowing Hinckley to go home to his family came out of unwarranted hysteria. “We’ve been hearing all week long that John is still dangerous and all sorts of other terrible things, and a certain hysteria has developed,” John Hinckley Sr. said of disclosures that his son, in a Washington psychiatric hospital for his 1981 shooting of President Reagan, wrote to Theodore Bundy, who is awaiting execution on Florida’s Death Row.
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