{"id":13041,"date":"2021-07-24T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/john-hinkley-jr-shot-president-reagan-to-impress-jodie-foster-she-wrote-her-only-response-for-esquire\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:48:58","slug":"john-hinkley-jr-shot-president-reagan-to-impress-jodie-foster-she-wrote-her-only-response-for-esquire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/john-hinkley-jr-shot-president-reagan-to-impress-jodie-foster-she-wrote-her-only-response-for-esquire\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hinkley Jr. Shot President Reagan to Impress Jodie Foster. She Wrote Her Only Response for Esquire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article originally appeared in the December 1982 issue of Esquire when Jodie Foster, 20, was a junior at Yale. The previous spring and summer she worked as an intern at Esquire, which coincided with John Hinkley\u2019s trial for attempting to assassinate President Reagan. There, he revealed his obsession with Foster and confessed that he shot the president to impress her. At the end of the summer, Foster wrote the following essay. \u201cWhy Me?\u201d is a frank and gracefully written attempt at coming to grips with the bizarre and difficult events of the past few years of her life. It remains an invaluable account of an unfathomable situation. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. My brothers and sisters called me Load because of the extraordinary capacity of my diapers. Apart from that fact and a few distinguishing details here and there, my vision of myself was pretty average. Not average so-so; just average &#8230; bacon and eggs, Volkswagens, southern California sun. Sometimes, though, I look back at my life, at the way it has slowly assumed shape and color, at the places I\u2019ve seen and the flickers of people I\u2019ve met, and wonder, Why? Why me? Why, when the lists were made and the heads counted, was I always chosen? Why did I always find the chocolate basket on Easter morning? Mostly the applause felt good; damn wonderful, even. Esquire\u2019s December 1982 cover.Esquire To this day I still redden and warm when someone compliments my&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Esquire<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a36608949\/jodie-foster-response-john-hinkley-jr-president-reagan-assassination-attempt\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article originally appeared in the December 1982 issue of Esquire when Jodie Foster, 20, was a junior at Yale. 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