. >> would-be assassin, john hinckley, fires six shots. this weekend on american artifacts, the race to save a president. today at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, this weekend on c-span3. >>> this monday, watch american history tv in primetime on c-span3 with a l 34th president dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m., architect frank gary on his design for the eisenhower memorial. following that at 9:00 a.m., the president's granddaughter susan eisenhower, her opposition to the gary designed eisenhower memorial. at 10:30 p.m., an archival film about president eisenhower produced by the u.s. army. >>> good evening, and welcome to the 2012 c-span tour, central arkansas, kickoff event. how are you doing this evening, central arkansas? >> with the help of our comcast cable partners we bring you little rock weekend on american history tv. spending a week in both the capital city and its sister city of north little rock just across the arkansas river, our team of local content vehicles producers visited historic sites, museums

now around 2:00, 1:30 about that time, john hinckley, a deranged troubled 25-year-old, was obsessed with jodie foster, as we all know, infamously obsessed with jodie foster. hinckley is a strange character, and i tried to write him in the most balanced way possible. people differed on whether he was real insane at that moment. the jury decided that he was. he had an obsession with jodie foster. he saw the movie "taxi driver" and began to fantasize about jodie foster. his character mirrored bickel who is a taxi driver, former army vet works wants to kill a presidential candidate to impress a woman he admirers and he starts focusing on jodie foster who played a prostitute in that move and becomes more and more obsessive. in his mind he wants to impress her and thinks the only way he could impress her is to shoot the president of the united states, so he hangs out at blair house during the transition period in 1980, in early 1981 stalking the president, watching the president-elect. he actually stalked carter. in october 1980 he was in dayton, ohio, and he got within arm's reach of the pres

around 2:00, 1:30, about that time, john hinckley, a troubled 25-year-old from evergreen, colorado, who'sbsessed with jodie foster, we all know, infamously obsessed with jodie foster. hinkley's a really strange character. i tried to write him in the most balanced way possible. people differ whether he was insane at that moment, the jury decided that he was. he had an obsession with jodie foster and it had started a few years earlier, 1976 he saw the movie "taxi driver" and he fantasized by jodie foster. his life began to mirror travis bickle, the main character in "taxi driver." it's a violent film, the taxi driver, former army vet, who wants to kill a presidential candidate to impress a woman he admires. so he starts focusing on jodie foster who played a prostitute in that movie and over time he becomes more and more obsessive, in his mind he wants to impress her. he thinks, the only way i can impress her would be to shoot the president of the united states. he hangs out at blair house in the transition period, stalking the president-elect. he actually stalked carter. in october he was -

john hinckley, deranged, troubled, 25-year-old from evergreen, colorado, who was obsessed with jodie foster, we know, infamously obsessed with jodie foster. hinckley is a strange character. i tried to write him in the most balanced way possible. people differ on whether he was really insane at that moment. the jury decided that he was. he had an obsession with jodie foster. it started earlier. he saw the movie taxi driver and began to fantasy about jodie foster, his life mirrored the main character in taxi driver, a violent film. the taxi driver, a former army vet wants to kill, a presidential candidate. to up press a woman he admires. so, he starts focusing on, jodie foster played a prostitute. over time it becomes more and more obsessive. in his mind he wants to up press her. he thinks the only way to impress her would be to shoot the president of the united states. he hangs out at blair house, during the transition in 1980, 1981, stalking the president, watching the president elect. he actually stalked carter. in october, he was in, october 1980, he was in -- dayton, ohio. and he

john hinckley has a range. he has done target practice. >> 1931 -- 1991. one author on the race to save the president today at 7:00 at 10:00 p.m. eastern on american history television, this weekend, on c-span3. host: at the table now is marc lynch. topic, syria. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you. host: a big meeting in turkey. including this from "associated press." what you make of this headline? guest: they are trying to walk the line between a direct intervention with syria which they fear will be disastrous while also trying to get him to agree to the united nations plan. it is extremely difficult because i think he is wrong, but he thinks he is a winning right now. he is beating the opposition military. he is retaking control and there is a lot of bloodshed. he does not seem interested in a diplomatic offer. at the same time, we look at control for much of the country. there are still peaceful protests happening everywhere. you are seeing them really try to target the kinds of leverage that might get him to agree. host: this comes a couple d

assassin john hinckley fires six shots. the race to save a president. today at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m.astern on american history tv this weekend c-span 3. >> live today on "in depth," our founding fathers, civility and conservative politics, your questions for author and "national review" senior editor richard brookhiser. his books include books on george washington on leadership and his latest on james madison. >> today on "newsmakers," jim jordan. the ohio congressman talks about why he supports budget committee chairman paul ryan's budget which passed the house thursday. >> there's nothing good about paul's budget. the fact that particularly the policy statement where they've incorporated ideas that of sea ideas like welfare reform, medicaid reform, sending it back to the states where we think we can better serve the recipient. a lot of good things in there. tax reform policy, 1,000 times better than the president's budget which never, ever ever get to balance but the difference between paul's budget and ours is we get to balance in a reasonable time frame that we believe the americ