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50th Anaversery of the 1st Assassination attempt of President Ford

Posted on 09/05/2025 9:21:18 AM PDT by cowboyusa

Nelson Rockafeller would have become President.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anaversary; anaversery; anniversary; assassenation; fiftyeth; ford; phord; rockafeller; rockefeller; spelchek; stunedmybeber

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1 posted on 09/05/2025 9:21:18 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: cowboyusa

Would this be Squeaky Fromme or the other nutcase lady?


2 posted on 09/05/2025 9:23:05 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The 1st one.


3 posted on 09/05/2025 9:25:42 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Nelson Rockafeller would have become President.

A true WEF/Davos globalist, decades before even had a clue what they were all about.

4 posted on 09/05/2025 9:25:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Manson family member Lynette Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford on Sept 5, 1975 in Sacramento with a .45 caliber handgun.

Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate President Ford 17 days later in San Francisco. Former Marine and Vietnam veteran Oliver Sipple grabbed her arm and her one shot did not hit anyone.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-5/gerald-ford-survives-first-assassination-attempt


5 posted on 09/05/2025 9:29:36 AM PDT by DFG
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I heard on the radio from Paul Harvey, that Sara Jane Moore had once been found passed out outside the Truman White House.
When she escaped from prison in 1979 she was said to be heading in the direction of Washington DC when recaptured.


6 posted on 09/05/2025 9:30:19 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970S!)
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To: cowboyusa
"Nelson Rockefeller would have become President."

Talk about dodging a bullet!

Instead, Rockefeller died "in the saddle" so to speak.

7 posted on 09/05/2025 9:40:26 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: cowboyusa

America dodged a bullet that day in more ways than one.

Nelson Rockefeller was a disaster for the Republican minority, representing what was the “globalist” brand of diplomacy rampant even back then.


8 posted on 09/05/2025 9:42:21 AM PDT by alloysteel (When in doubt, run about, scream and shout.)
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To: cowboyusa

Then they tried to kill Reagan to get GHW Bush installed.


9 posted on 09/05/2025 9:57:21 AM PDT by Racketeer
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Yep.


10 posted on 09/05/2025 10:02:22 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Most Americans don’t know but Ford was a real war hero.
He helped save his aircraft carrier during “Halsey’s Typhoon” in Dec ‘44


11 posted on 09/05/2025 10:13:50 AM PDT by Zathras
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I remember the HUGE headline in The Los Angeles Times the next day....

MANSON GIRL TRIES TO SHOOT PRESIDENT.

In smaller font underneath...

PULLS GUN IN CROWD AT SACRAMENTO.

After the second attempt, another headline....

PRESIDENT ESCAPES ASSASSINS BULLET.


12 posted on 09/05/2025 10:28:15 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Talk about dodging a bullet!

If Nelson Rockefeller had been the Republican nominee in 1976 (could hardly have been denied the nomination if he was President), he probably would have lost to some mediocre Democrat idiot.

13 posted on 09/05/2025 12:21:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

President Morris Udall.


14 posted on 09/05/2025 12:47:00 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: cowboyusa

Why do Republican Presidents always get someone to try to assassinate them, when Democrat Presidents don’t?


15 posted on 09/05/2025 12:48:03 PM PDT by ktw (72 ID, Finally Retired after 25 years!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Or Reagan might have won in 1976.


16 posted on 09/05/2025 12:49:41 PM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Gerald Ford to Rockefeller: out of the frying pan and into the fire …

17 posted on 09/05/2025 12:55:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Ford was smart enough to dump Rockefeller as his running mate in 1976, but it wasn’t quite enough for him to win.


18 posted on 09/05/2025 1:40:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: cowboyusa

Yes, Reagan might well have won in 1976 if he had been the nominee, and would likely have avoided many of the disasters of the Carter era. But he would have finished his second term too early to deal with Gorbachev so he would have been dealing with old-style apparatchniks in the Kremlin. But he might have had a different Vice President, so perhaps that person would have been President in 1985 and after and possibly able to take advantage of the new flexibility in the USSR.


19 posted on 09/05/2025 1:46:10 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DFG; cowboyusa
Good thing you came along with an actual link to, like, you know, facts!

Them things are mighty handy even if just refreshing one's memory. ;-)

20 posted on 09/05/2025 1:47:50 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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