Bill Sipple.
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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Hmmmm. Forgiveness does not equal justice.
Victims can (and should - it's healthy) forgive their attackers. However, the attacker still must pay the price for their crime.
IMHO, if you attempt to assasinate the President of the United States, you should never again draw a free breath of air...
One can be forgiven, but still be required to suffer the consequences of ones actions.
Assassins should not be given any leniency whatsoever. The act is treason or a declaration of war against our representative republic in that it seeks to overthrow or remove elected officials by violence rather than by the ballot box.
JFK+RFK+MLK=Gun Control of 1968, where LBJ wanted licensing and registration and almost got it.
He was shot at once, "Squeaky" just pointed her gun at him. Luckily she was too stupid to figure out how to chamber a round in her 1911 model. She did have 4 rounds in the magazine though.
I do remember the 90's, where overzealous police actions that benefitted the adminstration were supported 100%.
There are times where the left believes that the collateral damage is worth it.
Different nut
Hope this link works...
http://www.squeakyfromme.org/media/casstevens.htm
FW Star Telegram from Sep. 2005
A few years later, Harvey Milk and SF Mayor Moscone were gunned down by disgruntled employee Dan White (not the Cowboys QB). This act propelled Dianne Feinstein to the mayor's office and then to the US Senate.
Moore was convicted. Hinckley was acquitted. It's really not all that complicated.
That's his job :)
Moore Quotes
"I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos."
"I didn’t want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun."
"The government had declared war on the left. Nixon's appointment of Ford as vice president and his resignation making Ford president seemed to be a continuing assault on America."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had attempted to assassinate Ford. [1] Moore was 40 feet away from the President [2] when she fired a single shot at him. The bullet missed the President because bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the gun from firing a second time. [3][4] The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel [5] but struck no one.
Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President. [6]
A former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant, Moore had five husbands before she turned to revolutionary politics in her forties. [7]
After Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her father Randolph Hearst created the organization People in Need (P.I.N.) to feed the poor, in order to answer S.L.A. claims that the elder Hearst was "committing 'crimes' against 'the people.'" Moore was a bookkeeper for P.I.N. and an FBI informant when she attempted to assassinate Ford. Her friends said she was obsessed with Patty Hearst. [8]
Moore pled guilty [9] to attempted assassination and was sentenced to life in prison [10] [11]. In 1989, Moore escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia [12], but turned herself in two days later. After her return, she was transferred to a more secure facility. [13] She is currently serving at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California. [14]
In an interview in 2004, former President Ford described Moore as "off her mind" and said that he continued making public appearances, even after two attempts on his life within such a short time, because "a president has to be aggressive, has to meet the people." [15]
1976
"I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos." [16] [17]
2004
"I didn’t want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun." [18]
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is unrepentant and still worships Charles Manson. She escaped once and used her two days of freedom to try to visit Charlie in prison.
She's even got here own website.
Manson's crowd were early Animal Rights activists - crazy Charlie said he did it all for "ATWA" (air, trees, water, animals). He convinced Fromme that because she had red hair, she was to save the redwoods of California. Fortunately, the idiot had two empty chambers in the gun and the gun didn't go off.
The were all vegans and/or vegetarians back then too.
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