“It keeps happening over and over again.”“They book me and then the show gets announced and then the venue starts getting backlash,” he said.The fact that Hinckley is getting booked may have less to do with his singing and more with the infamy that came after he opened fire on Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel in 1981.The shots wounded the president, partially paralyzed press secretary James Brady and injured two other men.
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