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US president Gerald Ford survived an assassination attempt in which city in 1975?
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr was the 38th President of the United States. He survived two assassination attempts during his term, which happened within three weeks of each other in California. Interestingly, both of these attempts were made by women. The first one occurred in the city of Sacramento on September 5, 1975. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, tried to shoot the President with her Colt .45-caliber handgun but was seized by a Secret Service agent. She was later sentenced to life in prison and paroled in 2009.
The second attempt happened seventeen days later in San Francisco when the President was going out of the St. Francis Hotel. Sara Jane Moore standing across the street fired a single round but missed. She spent in prison 32 years being paroled in 2007.
Why were they paroled? Prisons over crowded? I feel that anyone who tries to shoot the president should serve a minimum sentence of 50 years.. Even if the President uses twitter to announce his next scheduled bowl movement..
I worked for a Ford Cabinet Member at the time. Squeaky Fromme, a.k.a. Lynette Alice Fromme, was paroled in 2009 and is now 72 years old. She was a member of the "Manson Family".
Maury Christian, both women were paroled at age 79 and age 77. I guess they no longer feared them a danger to society. President Ford died a year before “Squeaky” was paroled and Moore was recently arrested for parole violation in February of this year.
Donna Louise Johnson, they were not both Manson Family members. Sara Jane Moore was fascinated by Patty Hearst and her political views after being kidnapped.
