Here’s a piece of Lubbock history you may not have ever heard about.
One of the most infamous attempted assassins in American history once walked the campus of Texas Tech University.
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John Hinckley Jr. is best known for the shocking 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. But before he fired six shots outside a Washington, D.C., hotel, Hinckley spent several years as a student in Lubbock.
From Lubbock to Washington D.C.
Hinckley attended Texas Tech intermittently from 1973 through 1980, although he never graduated.
At the time, there was nothing particularly remarkable about his presence on campus. He was simply another student in Lubbock…