W Bush knew the family of John Hinckley Jnr, the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan. George H W Bush, and John Hinckley, Snr., were neighbouring families in Houston.

John Hinckley, Sr., contributed to the political campaigns of George H W Bush, back when Bush was running for Congress, and he supported Bush against Reagan for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. Bush, Snr, and Hinckley Snr, were both in the oil business. When the Hinckley oil company, Vanderbilt Oil, started to fail in the 1960s, Bush, Snr's, Zapata Oil financially bailed out Hinckley's company. Hinckley had been running an operation with six dead wells, but he began making several million dollars a year after the Bush bailout.

Zapata was a CIA front for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The Hinckley’sthe time, Neil Bush was a Denver-based purchaser of mineral rights for Amoco. Scott Hinckley was the Vice President of his father's Denver-based oil business. The dinner date was cancelled.

The NBC news anchor reported that George H W Bush was associated with the family of the would be assassin. The story of the Bush-Hinckley connection was reported on the AP and UPI newswires and in some newspapers, including the Houston Post, which apparently originated the story. It was also reported in Newsweek magazine. Then the story about one of the strangest coincidences in presidential assassination history simply disappeared.

Every morning, in the months leading up to the assassination attempt, John Hinckley Jnr, would visit a donut shop near the Hilton Hotel, where the assassination attempt took place at. There