He once tried to kill President Reagan. Now John Hinckley says he's 'happy as a clam'
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Two years after he was discharged from a mental hospital, John W. Hinckley Jr. lives in a modest house on a golf course, runs a small antiques business, adopted a cat named Theo, and drives for his mother and older brother.
"This is the best I've ever felt in my life," he told a psychiatrist about his life in the historic colonial-era town of Williamsburg in coastal Virginia, according to court records. "I'm happy as a clam, to be honest."
But at 63, Hinckley continues to face challenges, some universal and some unique to the man who shot and nearly killed President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981.
He doesn't like to exercise and in recent years has gained as much as
