The Nation - News from May 16, 1986

John W. Hinckley Sr. said a new public-service ad campaign will soon flood America with the sort of information on mental-illness warning signs that might have prevented his son, John W. Hinckley Jr., from shooting President Reagan on March 30, 1981. The elder Hinckley, speaking to a Washington convention of psychiatrists a few blocks from the site of the assassination attempt, at the entrance to a hotel, said the ads will deal with the widespread ignorance about mental illness that he and his wife had shared before “the gunfire shocked us into a new awareness.”