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EspañolSARA JANE MOORE
'Sara Jane Moore' (born Sara Jane Kahn[1] on February 15, 1930[2] in Charleston, West Virginia[3]) 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.[4]
Moore was 40 feet away from the President[5] when she fired a single shot at him.[6] 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.[7][8] Sipple said at the time: "I saw [her gun] pointed out there and I grabbed for it. [...] I lunged and grabbed the woman's arm and the gun went off."[9] The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel[10] and slightly injured a bystander.[11]
Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President.[12] She had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident but was released. Police kept the .44 pistol and 113 rounds of ammunition.
A former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant, Moore had five husbands before she turned to revolutionary politics at the age of 45.[13][14]
Moore's friends said she was obsessed with Patty Hearst.[15] After 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.'"[16] Moore was a bookkeeper for P.I.N. and an FBI informant[13][18][16] when she attempted to assassinate Ford.
Moore pleaded guilty[20] to attempted assassination and was sentenced to life in prison[21][22]. She is currently serving at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California.[23][24] She is scheduled for parole on September 21, 2007.
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."[25]
In Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical ''Assassins,'' Moore is portrayed as a flaky accident-waiting-to-happen who can't wield a gun properly; in the 'Gun Song' (the only song she sings outside of the Assassins as a group) when she "squeezes her little finger to change the world" along with the boys, hers goes off although theirs do not, and in 'Everybody's Got the Right' the Proprietor reminds her "Don't forget that guns can go boom," when she accidentally aims hers at him. Along with Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, she serves as a bit of comic relief before major events in the musical, such as Guiteau's assassination of James Garfield.[26]. The interactions between Moore and Fromme presented in the musical, which include smoking marijuana and firing off pistols at a bucket of fast food, are entirely fictitious, however.
★ “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.”[27][28]
★ “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.”[29][3]
★ “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.”[31]
★ “I know now that I was wrong to try. Thank God I didn't succeed. People kept saying he would have to die before I could be released, and I did not want my release from prison to be dependent on somebody, on something happening to somebody else, so I wanted him to live to be 100.”[32]
★ Photograph of both Sipple and Moore taken during the assassination attempt; the black arrow points to Moore.
★ Photograph of Ford and his Secret Service agents taken just after Moore fired her shot.
★ Photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.
★ More photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.
1. CBS Evening News for Thursday, Sep 25, 1975
2. Making of a Misfit
3. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
4. 1975 : President Ford survives second assassination attempt
5. Kenneth Iacovoni -- special agent Jill Tucker
6. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
7. The Imperial Presidency: 1972 - 1980
8. Remember...…Oliver Sipple (1941-1989)
9. Sipple quoted in the Seattle Times, 23 September 1975, "Ford 'won't cower' after shooting"
10. Obituaries: David Richardson Wendell
11. Public Report of the White House Security Review United States Secret Service
12. How To Make The Secret Service's "Unwanted" List James Carney
13. Text
14. Assassins Shooting Gallery, Part III: Garrison as Fromme and Baker as Moore
15. Timeline: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
16. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
17. Text
18. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
19. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
20. December 12, 1975 in History
21.
22. January 15, 1976 in History
23. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
24. Ford Assailant Blocks Prison Key Crackdown
25. Interview with former President Gerald Ford and former first lady Betty Ford
26. Assassins
27. Squeaky and Sara Jane Eileen Keerdoja
28. Putting the Ass Back in Assassin
29. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
30. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
31. Interview: Woman Who Tried To Assassinate Ford
32. Former President Ford lauded, laid to rest
| Contents |
| Assassination attempt |
| In popular culture |
| Quotes |
| External links |
| References |
Assassination attempt
Moore was 40 feet away from the President[5] when she fired a single shot at him.[6] 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.[7][8] Sipple said at the time: "I saw [her gun] pointed out there and I grabbed for it. [...] I lunged and grabbed the woman's arm and the gun went off."[9] The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel[10] and slightly injured a bystander.[11]
Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President.[12] She had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident but was released. Police kept the .44 pistol and 113 rounds of ammunition.
A former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant, Moore had five husbands before she turned to revolutionary politics at the age of 45.[13][14]
Moore's friends said she was obsessed with Patty Hearst.[15] After 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.'"[16] Moore was a bookkeeper for P.I.N. and an FBI informant[13][18][16] when she attempted to assassinate Ford.
Moore pleaded guilty[20] to attempted assassination and was sentenced to life in prison[21][22]. She is currently serving at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California.[23][24] She is scheduled for parole on September 21, 2007.
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."[25]
In popular culture
In Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical ''Assassins,'' Moore is portrayed as a flaky accident-waiting-to-happen who can't wield a gun properly; in the 'Gun Song' (the only song she sings outside of the Assassins as a group) when she "squeezes her little finger to change the world" along with the boys, hers goes off although theirs do not, and in 'Everybody's Got the Right' the Proprietor reminds her "Don't forget that guns can go boom," when she accidentally aims hers at him. Along with Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, she serves as a bit of comic relief before major events in the musical, such as Guiteau's assassination of James Garfield.[26]. The interactions between Moore and Fromme presented in the musical, which include smoking marijuana and firing off pistols at a bucket of fast food, are entirely fictitious, however.
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.”[27][28]
★ “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.”[29][3]
★ “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.”[31]
★ “I know now that I was wrong to try. Thank God I didn't succeed. People kept saying he would have to die before I could be released, and I did not want my release from prison to be dependent on somebody, on something happening to somebody else, so I wanted him to live to be 100.”[32]
External links
★ Photograph of both Sipple and Moore taken during the assassination attempt; the black arrow points to Moore.
★ Photograph of Ford and his Secret Service agents taken just after Moore fired her shot.
★ Photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.
★ More photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.
References
1. CBS Evening News for Thursday, Sep 25, 1975
2. Making of a Misfit
3. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
4. 1975 : President Ford survives second assassination attempt
5. Kenneth Iacovoni -- special agent Jill Tucker
6. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
7. The Imperial Presidency: 1972 - 1980
8. Remember...…Oliver Sipple (1941-1989)
9. Sipple quoted in the Seattle Times, 23 September 1975, "Ford 'won't cower' after shooting"
10. Obituaries: David Richardson Wendell
11. Public Report of the White House Security Review United States Secret Service
12. How To Make The Secret Service's "Unwanted" List James Carney
13. Text
14. Assassins Shooting Gallery, Part III: Garrison as Fromme and Baker as Moore
15. Timeline: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
16. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
17. Text
18. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
19. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
20. December 12, 1975 in History
21.
22. January 15, 1976 in History
23. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
24. Ford Assailant Blocks Prison Key Crackdown
25. Interview with former President Gerald Ford and former first lady Betty Ford
26. Assassins
27. Squeaky and Sara Jane Eileen Keerdoja
28. Putting the Ass Back in Assassin
29. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
30. When you refer to the same footnote multiple times, the text from the first reference is used.
31. Interview: Woman Who Tried To Assassinate Ford
32. Former President Ford lauded, laid to rest
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