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...Texas, Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt traveled to Dallas and Lubbock to interview friends of John Hinckley, the shooting suspect. Denver Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury was two miles from his home when he heard on his car radio that Hinckley had lived in Evergreen, Colo. Says Woodbury: "I headed straight for the mountains." Just beginning a vacation in Greeley, Colo., Senior Writer Edward Magnuson was quickly airborne back to New York, where he wrote the narrative of the assassination attempt...
Hinckley purchased the ammunition that was used at another pawn shop, this one in Lubbock, Texas. The type of bullet he chose was interesting-and frightening. The cartridges were Devastators, made by Bingham Ltd. of Norcross, Ga. These projectiles, akin to dumdum bullets, contain a small aluminum canister filled with an explosive compound. They cost at least twelve times as much as ordinary .22-cal. slugs...
...Lubbock, dry and bleak, is 318 miles from Dallas on the flat cap rock of west Texas. The population is 180,000, and 22,000 are Texas Tech students. John Hinckley Jr. was one of them, a business major, as of September 1973. He never finished, but over the next seven years Hinckley attended classes more than half the time. By 1977 he had dropped business in favor of liberal arts and earned at least a B average-good enough to be on the dean's list. But once away from home, he made not even a token effort...
When things get truly rigorous, a certain improvisational talent comes into play. At Show Low, a tiny town (pop. 3,800) in eastern Arizona, some members of the company had to relieve themselves on the snow. Even when plumbing is provided, timing is vital. Portable toilets were installed in Lubbock, Texas, for company convenience, but they were located right inside the theater doors so that, as one TOT stalwart reports, "if you had to go during the show, you had to go during a loud part...
...Black Lubbock, Texas...