How A Man Obssesed With Jodie Foster Nearly Killed The President (John Hinkley Jr) | Our History

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May 30th 1981, Washington DC, a man lurks in a hidden corner of the exterior of the city's Hilton Hotel. Busy with their main priority of protecting President Ronald Reagan, Secret Service officers fail to notice the man. But his face is soon on the front page of every newspaper in the world. His name is John Hinkley and he is a stalker. But despite his headline grabbing shooting, Reagan is not the object of Hinkleys fascination.... For a number of years he's been obsessed with Jodie Foster. Celebrity Obsessed - Jodie Foster is the story of how Hinkley stalked the actress and how his bizarre actions threw the United States government into chaos and nearly led to the death of the world's most powerful man. The program contains exclusive contributions from interviews with Del Quintin Wilber, Author of "Rawhide Down" the definitive book on the assassination attempt; Christina Garibaldi, Co-Executive Producer of US Weekly; Renowned criminologist Prof.


This film was first broadcast: 2018

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