John Hinckley, Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan over 41 years ago in 1981, will be fully and unconditionally released from a federal mental health facility.

At a final hearing on the subject on Wednesday, U.S. Senior District Judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton-appointee to the District Court for the District of Columbia, said that Hinckley, 67, would be released from St. Elizabeths Hospital from psychiatric care without any preconditions on June 15.

Friedman, who since 2007 has overseen periodic requests from Hinckley for privileges during his confinement, said that “If he hadn't tried to kill a president, he would have been released unconditionally a long time ago.”

On March 30, 1981, as Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C., Hinckley drew a .22 caliber revolver and fired at the president as he was entering his limousine. Four of the six explosive-rounds he fired struck the president.

Wounded were D.C. police officer Tom Delahanty and U.S. Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, who placed himself in the line of fire, while Press Secretary James Brady sustained a gunshot to the head, which resulted in lifelong paralysis. The White House Press Briefing Room is named in his honor.

Hinckley's critical shot hit Reagan after it ricocheted off the armored door of his limousine. The bullet struck his limb and punctured his lung. Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr, who had pushed Reagan into the limousine and noticed him coughing "red, frothy blood," is credited with having saved Reagan's life by diverting the limousine towards George Washington University Memorial Hospital instead of the White House.

Reagan recovered and was released from the hospital on April 11, after which he served seven more years in office.

At the time, Hinckley, then 26, said that he shot Reagan to impress then-18-year-old Jodie Foster, with whom he believed was in love with him despite their never having met. Foster had gained fame at the time for her role as child prostitute Iris Steensma in the Martin Scorsese-directed film 'Taxi Driver'. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and institutionalized.