Posted on 01/03/2007 7:45:07 AM PST by SmithL
DUBLIN, Calif. - A woman who once tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford says she regrets the murder attempt and joins Americans in mourning his recent death.
Sara Jane Moore was only 40 feet away from Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco when she fired a single shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975.
As she raised her .38 caliber revolver, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former U.S. Marine who was standing next to her, pushed up her arm as the gun discharged. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet, ricocheted off the side of the hotel and slightly wounded a cab driver in the crowd.
"I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try," Moore, now 76, told KGO-TV on Tuesday in a phone interview from a federal prison in Dublin, where she's serving a life term for the attempted assassination.
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San Francisco has a lot of dangerous loonies running around...
Sounds like a typical DUmmie.
Sara Jane Moore was a far-left wacko, yet after her attempt to kill the President nobody in the media called for a crackdown on far-left groups (and there were no demands for them to cool their rhetoric). Could you imagine what the media would have been demanding if the situation was reversed?
Was she AKA Squeaky Fromm or was that a different nutcase?
Hey, it'll look good at her parole hearing.
What is life there? Here, with good time, they can get out in 20 years.
Did former Marine Sipple get the Medal of Freedom?
Squeaky Fromme is in a laughing academy in TX. Did anyone reach her for comment?
Hmmmm....sounds a lot like rabid anti-Bush people today.
Nope, there were two of them.
She's doing a federal bid. She will die in prison.
She's 76 now, what a wasted life. Sad, sad, sad.
However, she should not be paroled, ever, except to a nursing home when she's so old she can no longer wipe her own butt.
Different nutcase, but both tried to kill Ford in September 1975 (not a good month for him!!) She was part of the Manson Family.......California has an endless supply of nutcases, much as I hate to admit it!!
Fromme was one of Charles Manson's buddies.
A Scientologist, maybe, as well. (Manson was an early Scientologist; not exactly high on their list of celeb. endorsements.)
Thanks. I was only 13 y.o. at the time.
....... Interesting time to grow up.
NOT!
(Not too long ago, a lib co-worker was mystified why I couldn't WAIT to vote for Reagan just a few months after I turned 18.)
I just KNEW that Reagan would return sanity to America. At that point, I had had ENOUGH of the psycho madness.
It seemed then that the radical leftists were going to use force and terrorism to take over America. It seems that now the commmies have outsourced their domestic terror agenda to the islam!cs.
Different. Squeaky is unrepentant.
I am willing to take her at her word that she has seen the error of her ways and regrets her actions. However-the question that was previously asked on this thread is pertinent: what would have happened if a rightie had taken a shot at a Democrat president? The legacy media would be screaming for a crackdown, but deluded lefties can issue all sorts of deranged threats against a Republican president without the DBM batting an eye.
There is no parole in federal prisons. Don't you know that?
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