Woman Who Tried to Assassinate President Gerald Ford 50 Years Ago, Died This Week at Age 95
“the middle-aged radical and mother of four who fired two errant shots at President Gerald R. Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975”
In a week when many people are talking about political violence, it is ironic that Sara Jane Moore, the radical leftist who tried to assassinate Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975, passed away this week at the age of 95.
Moore was the second radical leftist to make an attempt on Ford’s life, the first being Charles Manson follower Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme.
Moore was released from prison in 2005, despite being sentenced to life.
The New York Times reported:
Sara Jane Moore, Would-Be Assassin of President Ford, Dies at 95
Sara Jane Moore, the middle-aged radical and mother of four who fired two errant shots at President Gerald R. Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975, with a vague notion of igniting a leftist revolution in America, died on Wednesday at a nursing home in Franklin, Tenn. She was 95.
Demetria Kalodimos, a reporter for The Nashville Banner who had developed a friendship with Ms. Moore, confirmed the death, which was first reported by The Banner.
Ms. Moore’s attempt to kill Mr. Ford occurred only 17 days after another would-be assassin, Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, a follower of the cult leader Charles Manson, pointed a gun at the president in a crowd at Sacramento but was seized before she could fire.
In San Francisco, about 3,000 people were gathered near Union Square for a glimpse of the president as he left the St. Francis Hotel. Ms. Moore, 45, who had been questioned by Secret Service agents the day before but then released, was standing across the street, 40 to 50 feet away from the commander in chief. She drew a chrome-plated .38-caliber revolver and fired at the president. The shot missed, and she raised the gun for a second shot.
Oliver W. Sipple, a former Marine, deflected the gun just as she fired. The bullet narrowly missed the president, ricocheted off a wall and grazed a bystander. Pandemonium erupted as Mr. Ford, unhurt, was hustled into a limousine by Secret Service agents and sped away. Mr. Sipple and two police officers seized Ms. Moore.
CNN interviewed Moore in 2015. If you watch the video, you may notice Moore’s description of the left in 1975 is eerily similar to today.
In terms of Republicans, Ford was extremely moderate. It’s remarkable that he stirred such rage from the radical left.
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“In terms of Republicans, Ford was extremely moderate. It’s remarkable that he stirred such rage from the radical left.”
It’s not even remotely remarkable. It’s par for the course for the left, who are incapable of distinguishing a “moderate” Republican from a “conservative” Republican.
Exhibit A for why I support the death penalty, NO ONE today serves “life in prison”.
As you listen to This Lu sticker, you realize she would do out again given the chance
She had 4 children, and not a thought to what she was doing g to them
Social media is chock full of nose-ringed women with kids losing their jobs after making Charlie Kirk death-celebration videos. Liberals propagandize lies because it works…particularly on emotionally manipulable women.
Jesus
Lunatic not Lu sticker, how do phones do this?
“Dial F for Frankenstein”, Arthur C. Clarke, 1965
The price of coherent communication via phone dictation is eternal vigilance.
But you might have coined a phrase. As in “There are a lot of Lu stickers around.”
I don’t know, I kind of like it.
Didn’t Lu Sticker play shortstop for the Dodgers back in ’67?
A blast from back when the CIA’s candidate selection was fairly primitive.
Dems are going back to shooting pols they do not like.
“Dems are going back to shooting pols they do not like.” Ford, who was a nonentity, Reagan and Trump.
Clearly the Bushes weren’t considered a threat of any kind to the Left. And we know why.
And yet, Bush the younger was routinely called Bushitler by the left.
They were doing warm ups.
She tried to justify Ford as not having been elected. Where have we heard that before?
Well, Ford wasn’t elected. Not that that matters, but it’s a fact.
He was elected Vice President, and that’s a fact.
He was only elected senator. Nixon picked him from the Senate to replace Agnew as VP, The citizens of the other 49 states did not get to vote for him until 1976, and he lost.
All the presidential assassination attempts I can recall in my lifetime were on Republican presidents… except for JFK, who was shot either by a pissed-off deep state IC or by a scrawny commie, depending on who you believe. Have there been ANY “right-wing” attempts on Democrats?
Only prominent democrats shot in the last 60 years or so were RFK, MLK, and George Wallace but they were all special (and not presidents),
was MLK truly a Democrat?
Yes. He was a socialist, and certainly didn’t support Republicans. The people he fought were Democrats, but he fought them within the Democrat Party.
Well, I’m including attempts in the question, here. The successful ones are easy to enumerate.
Harvey Milk is another one although lower on the food chain.
Moscone’s and Milk’s shooting was not political.
Malcolm X was shot for getting uppity and daring to escape the Democrat plantation.
Political violence in America is overwhelmingly left-wing, and this has been true for at least a century. Right-wing political violence exists but is very rare. Attempts to “both sides” this usually involve classing anything racist or anti-government as “right-wing”, and just making stuff up.
(Islamist violence isn’t usually political. Islamists are neither “left-wing” nor “right-wing” in terms of American politics.)
Islamists may objectively be neither “left-wing” or “right-wing” in the scheme of American politics, but, these pukes are nevertheless adeptly and shrewdly aligning themselves with, and, identifying as Dhimmi-crats, in order to exploit the Dhimmi-crats’ naive and gullible multiculturalist ethos and witless and obsequious dhimmitude.
It’s not coincidental that every prominent Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist politician in the U.S., e.g., Tlaib, Omar, Ellison, Mamdani, etc., is a prominent member of the Dhimmi-crat Party, or, is politically aligned with it.
A pretty good citizen? Seriously?
Like Routh and Tyler Robinson?
She died in a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, which is rather strange. Franklin, Tennessee a town that I visited once was the site of a horrific Crash vol War battle that only a few people know about on November 30, 1864. I’m sorry that the town was polluted by her presence.
“Crash vol”? Civil?
AI is either going to destroy us or give us an entirely new lexicon.
Or, maybe both.
See “Lu sticker” above.
This crone was age 45, when she attempted to murder President Ford. Not a student-radical, let’s note. This reprobate lived a far longer life than she deserved.