I was told there was a connection between Ronald Raegans attempted assasination and Jodie Foster, if so, what?

Question

Is this true? If not, can someone tell me about his attempted assasination please.

Answer 1

After repeated viewings of the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, in which a disturbed protagonist, Travis Bickle, played by Robert DeNiro, plots to assassinate a presidential candidate, Hinckley developed an obsession with actress Jodie Foster, who played a child prostitute in the film[2]. When Foster entered Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut, for a short time to be nearer to her, slipping poems and messages under her door and repeatedly contacting her by telephone.

Failing to develop any meaningful contact with Foster, Hinckley developed such plots as hijacking an airplane and committing suicide in front of her in order to gain her attention. Eventually he settled on a scheme to win her over by assassinating the president, on the theory that as a historical figure, he would be her equal. To this end, he trailed then-president Jimmy Carter from state to state, but was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee on a firearms charge. Penniless, he returned home once again, and despite psychiatric treatment for depression, his mental health did not improve. In 1981, he began to target the newly elected president, Ronald Reagan. It was also at this time that he started collecting information on Lee Harvey Oswald, John F Kennedy's presumed assassin, whom he saw as a role model.

Just prior to Hinckley's failed attempt on Reagan's life, he wrote to Foster[3]:

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.

Answer 2

John Hinckley was obsessed with Jodie Foster.

The motivation behind Hinckley's attack was an obsession with actress Jodie Foster. While living in Hollywood in the late 1970s, he saw the film Taxi Driver at least 15 times, apparently identifying strongly with Travis Bickle, the lead character played by Robert De Niro.[1][2] The arc of the story involves Bickle's protection of a 12-year-old prostitute, played by Foster, with a violent climatic scene in which he kills her pimps and a john. Over the following years, Hinckley trailed Foster around the country, going so far as to enroll in a writing course at Yale University in 1980 when he learned that she was a student there after reading an article in People magazine.[3] He wrote numerous letters and notes to her in the fall of 1980.[4] He called her twice and refused to give up when she indicated that she wasn't interested in him.[2] Convinced that by becoming a national figure he would be Foster's equal, Hinckley began to stalk then-President Jimmy Carter — his decision to target Presidents was also likely inspired by Taxi Driver.[5] He wrote three or four more notes to her in early March 1981. Foster gave these notes to her dean, who gave them to the Yale police department, which sought to track him down but failed.[6][7]

Answer 3

Reagan's assassin in his attempted assassination had been writing letters to Jodie Foster about his love for her in the person of John Hinckley.

Answer 4

I think Jodie Foster had a psycho stalker. He thought that if he could kill the president then he would get her attention. Pretty psycho huh?

Answer 5

the man who tried to kill reagan was obsessed with jodie foster, her stalker. he was trying to impress her

Answer 6

Ronald was in fact hannibal lechter and clarice was trying to kill him to silence the lambs.