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| | Taxi Driver: Its Influence on John Hinckley, Jr. |
 | | Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, he became obsessed with the movie "Taxi Driver." Hinckley saw the movie at least fifteen times, read and re-read the book it was based upon, and bought the soundtrack to the film, listening to it for hours on end. |
 | | Hinckley's mother JoAnn, came to feel such a warmth and connection with Lynn after several years of corresponding about her with John, (obviously John never brought her home to meet the folks), that she felt an emptiness when she was told by the FBI that Lynn Collins did not exist. |
 | | Feeling the loss as though it were a close personal friend, JoAnn Hinckley was most devastated by the fact that without Lynn in his life, she could not think of a single person with whom her son had had a relationship in several years. |
| www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/taxidriver.htm (770 words) |
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