Hinckley undergoes tests
WASHINGTON (AP) - John
Hinckley, his alleged murder
attempt upon Pres. Reagan
reportedly spawned by infatua
tion with a teen-age film star,
underwent psychiatric tests
Wednesday over the objections
of his new attorney, a partner of
famed criminal lawyer Edward
Williams.
The mental tests were
conducted at the Quantico, Va.,
Marine base south of the capi
tal, where Hinckley, 25, has
been kept isolated and under
constant surveillance since his
arrest Monday following the at
tempted assassination.
The tests were administered
to determine whether Hinckley,
the son of a wealthy Denver
oilman, is mentally competent to
face trial on charges of at
tempted murder of the president
and assault on a Secret Service
agent.
Justice Department sources
say investigators believe Hinck
ley was “infatuated" with teen
age movie actress Jodie Foster
and wanted to do something
that would attract her attention.
The sources said Hinckley
wrote an unmailed letter to Fos
ter in which he described his
plans to shoot the president and
Jodie Foster ‘shocked’
by Hinckley’s actions
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -
Actress Jodie Foster said Wed
nesday she was “shocked” and
"frightened" when she learned
that the man who is accused of
shooting President Reagan may
have written letters to her.
She declined to say anything
about the contents, except that
they did not refer to the pres
ident and were not of a threat
ening nature. In fact, she said
they seemed more like love let
ters.
The well-known Yale fresh
man came out of a 24-hour se
clusion for a news conference
limited to a few reporters at the
university.
She said she had received a
number of letters and notes
signed either “JWH" or "John
Hinckley” last fall and again last
month. She said she threw the
earlier ones away.
The Justice Department
reportedly found an unmailed
letter addressed to Foster in
Hinckley's Washington hotel
room after his arrest Monday. It
reportedly indicated he wanted
to impress her by killing the
president.
Looking calm and composed,
Foster said she didn’t want to
establish any link between the
shooting and the film, “Taxi
Driver," in which she had a role
as a young prostitute. A portion
of the movie dealt with an at
tempted political assassination.
Foster said she received
“several pieces of unsolicited
correspondence" after she en
tered Yale as a literature major
and "threw them all away."
said “I'm going to do it for you.”
The letter was found by authori
ties, apparently at the down
town Washington hotel where
Hinckley stayed the night before
the attempt on Reagan’s life.
Foster had portrayed a teen
age prostitute in the film “Taxi
Driver,” in which a New York
cab driver who is fascinated by
guns plans to assassinate a
Senate candidate.
Meanwhile, a switch in
defense strategy developed
Wednesday when one of Hinck
ley’s new lawyers, Vincent
Fuller, sought at a court hearing
Wednesday to cancel the psy
chiatric tests.
However, U S. Magistrate
Arthur Burnett rejected the
request.
Hinckley’s original defense
attorneys, who were appointed
by the court, had asked for the
mental tests. Fuller gave no
explanation for why he opposed
testing of Hinckley, who has
been under psychiatric care in
the past.
Thomas P. Decair, a Justice
Department spokesman, said
Hinckley was interviewed for
three hours by a psychiatrist.
Decair emphasized the session
was not to determine Hinckley's
sanity, but rather whether he is
competent to understand his
rights and help in his defense.
Fuller, a partner in the firm of
Williams and Connolly, also told
the magistrate that his client
was willing to waive a prelimin
ary hearing scheduled for
Thursday morning and have the
case go directly to a federal
grand jury.
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Brady improves;
able to move, talk
WASHINGTON (AP) — The steady recovery White House
press secretary James Brady is making from a bullet through
the brain is “truly exceptional” and indicates he may regain
more mental functions than earlier hoped, say brain
specialists.
White House officials said Wednesday that Brady was
conscious, talking, moving both arms and both legs and
generally continuing to improve.
“Physicians continue to be cautiously optimistic as Mr.
Brady's neurological condition continues to improve," Wed
nesday’s report said.
However, he remains in critical condition at George
Washington University Hospital.
Brady, 40, and his wife, Sarah, played catch with a ball of
cotton or gauze Tuesday night, "demonstrating his ability to
move in spite of his weakened condition," said a White House
statement.
James Baker, White House chief of staff, said doctors
believe Brady will survive and “that mental capacity will be
there” despite damage caused by a 22-caliber bullet ripping
through his brain.
However, it is unknown how much and what kind of
mental capacity will remain following massive injury to the
right side of Brady’s brain and minor injury to the front lobe of
the left side.
During five hours of surgery soon after Monday’s assas
sination attempt on Pres. Reagan, doctors reportedly
removed large amounts of brain tissue from the right frontal
lobe of Brady's brain and a small amount from the left.
Dr. Daniel Ruge, the White House physician, said there
was “minimal, but hopeful" movement on the left side of
Brady’s body, as well as continued movement of the right arm
and leg reported earlier.
The left-side movement first reported Wednesday was
characterized by deputy press secretary Larry Speakes as “a
big development” since the badly damaged right side of the
brain controls body movement on the left.
Brain specialists term Brady’s progress “extraordinary"
and “exceptional," but caution against premature optimism.
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