Reagan’s would-be assassin will be coming to Williamsburg more often

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman approved more visits for John Hinckley Jr. to his mother's house in Williamsburg, Va.

In 2009, Judge Friedman gave Hinckley permission to apply for a driver's license and increased the length time he could visit his mother of visits to from six nights at a time to nine.

Now 55, Hinckley has been held at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington D.C. since he was found not guilty of attempting to murder President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity in 1981.

On March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton, Hinckley shot police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and White House Press Secretary James Brady. Another one of Hinckley’s shots Hinckley did ricocheted off of Reagan’s limousine and struck the president in the chest.

While all of the shooting victims survived, Brady suffered a head wound and to this day, remains paralyzed on the left side of his body.

The attempted assassination was Hinckley’s sick attempt to garner the attention of actress Jodie Foster.

Shortly before the shooting, Hinckley wrote to Foster: “Over the past seven months I've left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint hope that you could develop an interest in me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of times I never had the nerve to simply approach you and introduce myself… the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I cannot wait any longer to impress you.”

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