John Hinckley Jr. spent 41 years 2 months and 15 days under one form of supervision or another — primarily during a lengthy stay in a Washington mental hospital — as a result of his attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan in 1981. And since entering back into society as a free man in 2022, he's been trying to make a go of it as a professional musician. But it's not going very well.
On average, as soon as Hinckley books a show — be it in Brooklyn, NY or Naugatuck, CT, where he was scheduled to perform at Hotel Huxley on a date that would've marked 43 years, to the day, since shooting Reagan — the venue finds reason to shut it down before he even takes the stage. In a recent post to X (formerly Twitter) he offers his theory on why that is.
