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Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, John Hinckley Jr. grew increasingly obsessed with teenage actress Jodie Foster. He was especially fixated upon her 1976 movie "Taxi Driver," in which a loner attempts to assassinate a presidential candidate. By the end of 1980, he was stalking Foster and sending her a series of disturbing letters. And the following year, he made his most daring move yet when he tried to impress Foster by emulating "Taxi Driver" — and attempting to assassinate President R