I guess no one knows for sure where Flight 93 was headed on 9/11 but either Congress or the White House are usually listed as targets.
And Bush wasn't there -- but that's probably luck as much as anything. Imagine the president being hit by a jetliner shortly after the 2000 election. The whole "election year ending in zero" curse would have been a big topic. But I guess Reagan's survival ended the curse.
Yes, I agree with your thoughts there.
Remember this?
The Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento was a September 5, 1975, effort by Charles Manson Family cult member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme to kill President of the United States Gerald Ford in California.
She wanted to make a statement to people who refused to halt environmental pollution and its effects on Air, Trees, Water, and Animals (ATWA).
Although Fromme stood a little more than an arm’s length from Ford that Friday morning and pointed a M1911 pistol at him in the public grounds of the California State Capitol building, her gun failed to fire and no one was injured.
After the assassination attempt, Ford continued to walk to the California state house, where he met with California governor Jerry Brown.
For her crime, Fromme spent 34 years in prison and was released on August 14, 2009 – 2 years and 7 months after Ford’s death.
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, later received the M1911 pistol used in the assassination attempt as a gift, and the gun was put on display.