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President Ford survives second assassination attempt
History.com ^ | none given | History.com

Posted on 09/16/2024 10:21:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff

On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore aims a gun at President Gerald Ford as he leaves the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The attempt on the president’s life came only 17 days after another woman had tried to assassinate Ford while he was on his way to give a speech to the California legislature in Sacramento.

Moore’s attempt was thwarted by a bystander, Oliver Sipple, who instinctively grabbed Moore’s arm when she raised the gun. She was able to fire off one shot, but it failed to find its target. Secret Service agents quickly hustled Ford into a waiting vehicle and sped him to safety.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: assassination; ford; trump
After my 60 plus years and looking back, Gerald Ford's policies were not that great, but history repeats itself, he did survive two assassination attempts.

Everything old is new again, with democrat radicals trying to assassinate a Republican.

1 posted on 09/16/2024 10:21:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

The last five attempted presidential assassination attempts have been against Republicans (2 Ford, 1 Reagan, 2 Trump) yet we’re labeled the dangerous, anti-democracy, gun freaks!


2 posted on 09/16/2024 10:29:39 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

Excellent summary!!


3 posted on 09/16/2024 10:32:13 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: DallasBiff

Ford’s would-be assassins were Manson-gang crazies!

Trump’s would-be assassins are of a different sort altogether!


4 posted on 09/16/2024 10:32:43 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Ford’s would-be assassins were Manson-gang crazies!

Trump’s would-be assassins are of a different sort altogether!


I don’t see any real difference.


5 posted on 09/16/2024 10:38:53 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: nesnah

I do.

Trump’s would-be assassins are crazies, but they do not belong to a particular movement like Manson’s.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 10:41:29 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: aquila48

3 attempts on Trump.

“Pascale Ferrier jailed for 22 years for mailing Donald Trump ricin”

Butler, PA

Golf course.


7 posted on 09/16/2024 11:08:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: DallasBiff

Both of Ford’s attempted assassins are still alive and no longer incarcerated.


8 posted on 09/16/2024 11:10:45 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: HandBasketHell
They say Routh was a convicted felon. Did he ever get a jail term?
9 posted on 09/16/2024 11:12:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

When Sarah Jane Moore’s name was made public some newsman did some snooping and found she was once found passed out outside the White House in a WAC uniform in the late 1940s or 1950s.

When she escaped from prison in 1979, it was said she was trying to catch a ride to the Washington DC area.


10 posted on 09/16/2024 11:32:09 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Forgot about that one.

Plus the myriad of “political assassinations” the Rats have perpetrated against Trump.

No one else in the world would put up with one hundredth what he’s been through, yet he’s here fighting harder than ever.

Incredible will!


11 posted on 09/16/2024 11:36:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Honorary Serb; nesnah

Some have researched and believe the Manson group was a CIA plot to foment racial tensions to create widespread division and riots in order to increase the power of the government and control over the citizens.

I agree with nesnah - no different than the Democrats in power today.


12 posted on 09/16/2024 11:42:42 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: aquila48

“Incredible will!”

He is an amazing man. Even Democrats loved him when they thought he was one of them.


13 posted on 09/16/2024 11:57:26 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: DallasBiff

Democrat radicals trying to assassinate a Republican.

Abe Lincoln shows how long they had that agenda about Republicans the democrats have been tied to every communist and left wing group from the day the party was formed.


14 posted on 09/16/2024 12:44:44 PM PDT by Vaduz
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Abe Lincoln shows how long they had that agenda about Republicans the democrats have been tied to every communist and left wing group from the day the party was formed.


Ironic, since the Communist Americans who went to Spain to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War created “The Abraham Lincoln Brigade”.


15 posted on 09/16/2024 12:50:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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