Friday, July 17, 2026

Cancelled: Hotel Reluctantly Kills Brooklyn Concert by Reagan’s Attempted Assassin John Hinckley Jr

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John Hinckley Jr will not be warbling love songs at the Market Hotel in Brooklyn on July 8th.

The hotel has cancelled the Hinckley show. I was among the first to report the booking back in April.

Market Hotel posted a long explanation. They didn’t want to cancel but felt pressured to from customers. Come on, are you kidding? This man ruined James Brady’s life, altered his family’s. and tried to assassinate the President of the United States.

The Hotel says it thought this might be an “interesting” booking. That’s one word for it.

Maybe they can bring in Squeaky Fromme to sing Beatles songs instead.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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