h actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley had written several letters to the young actress, professing his love for her. He was so obsessed with Foster that he never mailed the letters to her; he would slip them under the door of her room at Yale University where she was a student at the time. Hinckley had also developed an obsession with the movie, Taxi Driver, in which Foster starred. Hinckley began to imitate the life of the movie's lead character, Travis Bickle, played by Robert DiNiro. Hinckley believed that he was Travis Bickle, and began to d
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