
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 24, 1995                   TAG: 9502240095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

HINCKLEY TO SPLIT PROFIT WITH BRADY

John Hinckley has agreed to pay as much as $2.9 million in possible book and movie proceeds to James Brady and two other men wounded in his 1981 assassination attempt against President Reagan, lawyers in the case said Thursday.

The agreement, which Hinckley's attorneys said he signed Monday at the mental hospital where he is confined, provides for his cooperation in the sale of his life story. It could lead to a movie or book revealing his reflections on the attack, which he has said was a way of drawing attention to his love for actress Jodie Foster.

But Hinckley would receive no more than $3,000 a year from the profits for his personal use, or $12,000 if he ever were released from the hospital, said Brady's lawyer, Frederic W. Schwartz Jr.

The financial benefits would go to the three men besides Reagan who were wounded in the March 30, 1981, attack - Brady, the former White House press secretary; Timothy J. McCarthy, then a Secret Service agent; and Thomas K. Delahanty, then a District of Columbia police officer.

The agreement is intended to end a long legal battle in which Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty sought to force Hinckley, 39, to pay for his act.

Brady was shot in the head during the assassination attempt and was left permanently disabled. McCarthy and Delahanty suffered lesser injuries. Reagan, who recovered from a serious gunshot wound, did not sue Hinckley.

by CNB