Subject: Re: Headline:Searching for a motive
It's perhaps too early to rely on reporting. They're all falling over themselves to try to be first with some tidbit or other. But I have read a few times now that he was a registered Republican, and this was going to be his first time he was eligible to vote.

If registered Rep, why shoot your candidate? Unless he wanted someone else to be the candidate? Like I said, it may be some time before we know the motivations.

Hinckley wanted to impress Jodie Foster. I seem to recall a lot of references to the movie Taxi Driver as the story evolved.