Candidate Ronald Reagan was opposed to tax breaks for the oil companies and this pissed off Texas oilmen such as John Hinckley, Sr., as well as a friend of his who was running against Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush. John Hinckley, Sr., worked hard rounding up other Texas oilmen to get behind the Bush campaign and defeat Reagan.
Hinckley and Bush may have discussed the topic, maybe not, when they and their spouses dined together, which they did on numerous occasions. If so, the anti-Reagan diatribes would have been pretty heated, because guys in Hinckley’s business at Hinckley’s level aren’t known for holding back. The abuse they unleashed in their own homes and clubs against Ronald Reagan, as the Hollywood cowboy swept through the primaries, must have made Reagan’s ears burn. And John Hinckley, Jr.’s.
A few months later, with Reagan elected and oilman/Hinckley friend/CIA asset George H.W. Bush in the Vice-Presdency, did John Jr. decide to shoot Reagan to prove a point to his father and his father’s friends? Assassinating Reagan would put Bush in the White House and that was something his powerful father and all his oil tycoon friends had been unable to do.
Was shooting Reagan a rite of passage in John Jr.’s mind? Did he think he’d be a hero in his father’s circles? Or was it exactly as John Jr. said: he only shot the President of the United States to impress teen actress Jodie Foster?
Footnote: In Denver, Scott Hinckley, the would-be assassin’s brother, was scheduled to have dinner at the home of Neil Bush, the Vice-President’s son, on the day of the attempt on Reagan’s life. After the assassination attempt, they called it off for the sake of appearances.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38432f49307d.htm
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/reagan.html
http://tomflocco.com/fs/HinckleyAndBush.htm
http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/bush2.htm
http://www.attytood.com/2007/01/the_real_good_shepherd_george.html
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/George_De_Mohrenschildt
Some questions that never seem to be answered: Where did Hinckley Jr get the gun? How did he know where Reagan was going to be that day, it’s not like it’s published in the newspaper? Why was this crowd allowed to gather outside the building, waiting for Reagan to exit? How did the SS manage to flub security to such an extent? Why did Hinckley Jr seem to be under hypnosis, or out of it mentally afterwards? Why is he allowed family visits when Sirhan Sirhan (who also appeared oddly emotionally blank after the shooting of RFK) is not?
Further questions: Why did Bush Sr, when asked where he was on 11/22/63, respond disingenuously, “I don’t remember…”; when there is a picture of what looks like him in front of the School Book Depository immediately after the shooting; he worked for the CIA back then, and he doesn’t remember where he was when JFK was shot? Seems like the Bushes have issues with their memories, when expedient.
Where was GWB the weekend that JFK Jr’s plane went ‘missing’? His staff was unable to contact him for three whole days, even though he was in the midst of campaigning. And what of the rumors that JFK Jr was getting ready to reveal firm evidence of who had killed his father, and that he also may have been seriously considering a run for NYS Senate, which was but a stepping stone to the White House, a strong public favorite compared to a Bush Jr. presidency.
As with the highly suspicious Paul Wellstone plane crash, JFK Jr’s plane simply did a nose dive without any indication of problems beforehand. There are devices available to the CIA that can simply be pointed at a plane and take out all the electronics, causing the plane to literally fall out of the sky. This is generally followed by the FBI or CIA arriving at the scene before the NTSB or even local police, and them taking over ‘control’ of the crash scene (and that’s the last we hear of it). There are numerous anomalies associated with both plane crashes, I invite the reader to investigate.
I find it interesting that the Bush family has never had a small plane crash accident, and damn few Republicans have, either. Why is it always the young upstart Democratic or Progressive candidates that get taken out before they get started?
It’s like a friend of mine said, ‘We didn’t defeat the Nazis, we hired them…’