Yes. I had a wow moment when I read that and remembered Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley Jr. are still incarcerated for these crimes.John Lennon assassination.
Ronald Regan assassination attempt.
Yes. I had a wow moment when I read that and remembered Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley Jr. are still incarcerated for these crimes.
It's amazing to me that Hinckley was released.john hinckley jr. was released from institutuional care in 2016-he never served prison time b/c he was found not guily by reason of insanity. mark david chapman will likely be denied parole in february 2024 for the 13th time.
It's amazing to me that Hinckley was released.
I had to look that one up, did not recall it at all. I do remember the DC sniper case a few years later, but these were not stories from when I was growing up, and there have been too many of them to remember them all.The Yosemite murders by Cary Stainer
And Fawn Hall smuggling out some secret documents out of the pentagon in her boots.Oliver North selling weapons to Iran in order to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. At the time it was huge, the idea that someone with the rank of lieutenant colonel could sell arms to a declared enemy was, in and if itself, an outrageous scandal. That he did so with the intention of using the funds to support a war that congress had explicitly defunded was even more scandalous. That he was convicted and only got probation - I don't think our country has ever recovered. It proved that certain military and intelligence officials were above the law, above even congress and the president.
I'd be shocked if more than 1% of people under 30 know this even happened.
This was the one I was going to post tooWhen Baby Jessica fell in the well.
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My aunt lost a dear friend on this flight. I was only 4 at the time, and it's always felt strange that it happened during my lifetime and affected someone so close to me, but I don't remember a thing about it.Pan Am Flight 103 exploding over Lockerbie, Scotland