John W. Hinckley Jr.’s freedom is unprecedented. Others who tried to kill presidents faced very different fates.

There is a TAXI DRIVER tie in to the assassination attempt. It has to do with his Jodie Foster obsession. This would also connect with The Joker, a retelling of Taxi Driver in many ways, where DeNiro’s character, the father figure, is assassinated by the Joker, played by Joachim Phoenix. — Tim Ozman

 

This is what happened to the men and women who tried to assassinate a president or presidential candidate, from Andrew Jackson in 1835 to Gerald Ford in 1975.

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