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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"California has an endless supply of nutcases, much as I hate to admit it!!"
Can they be exported somewhere? Think of what it could do to the balance of payments!
Great idea! But who can we get who's crazy enough to take them!! ;>)
LOL! wish I'd only been 13 then!! Instead I was 28, married and had 2 kids! They actually were good times to grow up in.....the only problem was that the nutcases were smart enough to get themselves firmly ensconced in the world of journalism and education. We're still paying for that today!!
yeah, but at that time she will once again be "functioning purely on adrenalin and not thinking clearly. "
Wow. I love your veggies link. I've had VERY bad experiences with vegans in the last few years. Very unpleasant people to be around... IMHO.
Moore and "Squeaky" Fromme are both former Manson cult members.
Like they say on the site, some of the most nasty, evil people in history were vegans and/or vegetarians...Pol Pot, Manson, Hitler, Cain, Van der Graaf...
Wasn't she one of Manson's followers?
"skanky left-wing hippie chicks"
Now there's a bunch in the House and the Senate!!!
lol. Can't argue with that!
She may be the only attempted assasin to express regret.
Yes; and at that time a remnant of the Manson cult had formed an alliance with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group Moore was in contact with.
Yes; and at that time a remnant of the Manson cult had formed an alliance with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group Moore was in contact with.
Sorry for the double-post; server problem.
Get President Ford to endorse her parole and it will help her cause.
I'm sure her only regret is that she missed. She is just giving statements that will sound good during her next parole hearing.
Not that it did White much good; he was convicted, not of first-degree murder but of manslaughter -- to the great annoyance of the city's gay community -- and served five years in prison. He committed suicide in 1985, two years after being paroled.
Sara Jane Moore wasn't one of Charlie's girls, that would be Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who also took a shot at President Ford in the same year.
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