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...dedication, church president Gordon B. Hinckley led the group in hymns and prayer. But the solemn tone masked the deep excitement of Mormons in New England and at Harvard at having a temple of their...
...JOHN HINCKLEY JR. Hospital withdraws bid for unescorted, off-site visits. Score one for the Gipper...
...then on Easter 1999, Gordon Hinckley, the Saints' president and prophet, announced that the church would rebuild the great Nauvoo Temple. Its agents were so confident that they applied for a building permit and scheduled groundbreaking for later the same month. The city council debate ran along monetary lines. The rebuilt temple would draw an estimated 1 million dollar-wielding visitors. But the pilgrims would strain the taxpayer-financed roads, sewers and police force, with its current night watch of one officer...
There have been efforts to get Hinckley out since the late 1980s. They were unsuccessful until his attorneys came up with the strategy of arguing that there had been a misinterpretation of a District of Columbia law that had made it necessary for a federal judge to sign off on Hinckley's proposed furloughs. They contended that this was not clearly stated in the law, and in January 1999 they...
PATTI DAVIS has long hoped to understand why John Hinckley tried to kill her father, President Ronald Reagan, on that chilly day in 1981. She was especially shocked when she learned that Hinckley, found not guilty by reason of insanity, was recently granted leaves from a Washington hospital. "I find it really offensive when his attorney says, 'This poor boy,'" says Davis, currently working on a novel. "This poor boy shot other people out of the way to get to my father...