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Woman who tried to kill Ford to be released August 16
Reuters ^ | August 5, 2009

Posted on 08/05/2009 2:32:02 PM PDT by george76

The woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford is expected to be released from prison on August 16 after serving her sentence.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a one-time follower of mass murderer Charles Manson, has been serving a life sentence .

Fromme has been incarcerated at a prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fromme had told her defense attorney she staged the attack because she "wanted to get some attention for a new trial" for Manson and members of his gang.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: assassinationplot; charlesmanson; ford; fromme; geraldford; manson; mansonfamily; squeaky; squeakyfromme
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1 posted on 08/05/2009 2:32:03 PM PDT by george76
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after serving her sentence . . . has been serving a life sentence


2 posted on 08/05/2009 2:33:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obama is in way over his ears.)
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To: george76

Will probably get a job in the Obummer Administration....


3 posted on 08/05/2009 2:35:53 PM PDT by Commander X (He's not MY President....A Real President has a Birth Certificate)
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To: george76

“August 16 after serving her sentence.”

I can’t really say I remember a time, but was there ever a time when a life sentence was meant for life? I could have sworn that trying to kill a head of state was an automatic death sentence.


4 posted on 08/05/2009 2:37:33 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru

I think in NYS the average time served for murder is something like 7 years.


5 posted on 08/05/2009 2:42:27 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Take a fish boating.)
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To: george76

They should do a story on the guy who knocked the gun away. Wasn’t he a Marine or something.


6 posted on 08/05/2009 2:43:48 PM PDT by Rinnwald (Pry my clunker out of my cold, dead fingers.)
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To: george76

I wonder what her DUmmie name is going to be.


7 posted on 08/05/2009 2:45:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76

The woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford is expected to be released from prison on August 16 after serving her sentence.


I can not adequately express my disgust without using language that would get me banned from here.


8 posted on 08/05/2009 2:53:12 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: dfwgator
I wonder what her DUmmie name is. going to be.
9 posted on 08/05/2009 2:54:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: george76

will no doubt get a plumb tenured Professorship in an office adjoining Bill Ayers


10 posted on 08/05/2009 3:13:06 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: george76

So who’s her next target do you think?

pasy, who hopes she has reformed.


11 posted on 08/05/2009 3:24:25 PM PDT by parsifal ("All great men come out of the middle classes" (Ralph Waldo Emerson))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I bet she ends up on the John Stewart show. Maybe get a VH1 reality show, “Life with Squeaky”

Or can you see her ad endorsements? Ajax—get your bathtub “Squeaky” clean.

parsy.


12 posted on 08/05/2009 3:26:20 PM PDT by parsifal ("All great men come out of the middle classes" (Ralph Waldo Emerson))
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To: Rinnwald
Former Marine Oliver Sipple lunged at Sara Jane Moore as she fired at Ford not Squeaky Fromme. A Secret Service Agent tackled Fromme before she took a shot.

Oliver Sipple, left, lunges for Sara Jane Moore, who was trying to assassinate President Ford.

Photo Credit: By Gordon Stone -- San Francisco Examiner Via The Associated Press Photo

13 posted on 08/05/2009 3:33:35 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
iirc, the only thing that saved Ford was she put the magazine into the pistol but wasn't smart enough to know you have to cycle the slide before it's loaded.
14 posted on 08/05/2009 4:09:19 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Niuhuru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Zangara


15 posted on 08/05/2009 5:21:16 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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pasy, who hopes she has reformed.

You so silly. Now your mispelling your name when you speak in 3rd person.

Cyber, who thinks Parsifal is silly....

16 posted on 08/05/2009 5:27:42 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: george76

Where will she be?
In the DFW area?

She’s sure to be the centerpiece at Obama rallies.
Maybe we could meet her...


17 posted on 08/05/2009 9:47:00 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Redbob

I’m guessing her Ayers/Manson mindset is probably a bit less murderous and whacked at this time in her life.


18 posted on 08/05/2009 9:52:38 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Cyber Liberty

Oh well, It could have been worse.

patsy.


19 posted on 08/05/2009 11:52:14 PM PDT by parsifal ("All great men come out of the middle classes" (Ralph Waldo Emerson))
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Thanks for the clarification. So many whackjobs, so little memory space.


20 posted on 08/06/2009 6:26:34 AM PDT by Rinnwald (Pry my clunker out of my cold, dead fingers.)
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