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In San Francisco on September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, after he had made an address to the World Affairs Council. [1] Moore fired two shots at President Ford with a .38 Special revolver, both of which missed.
Ford went on to complete his 1974–77 presidency without further assassination attempts. [48] In 1981, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was dedicated in Ford's hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. [49] On August 23, 1989, the Office of the United States Attorney in Sacramento donated Fromme's pistol to the museum.
Sara Jane Moore (née Kahn; born February 15, 1930) is an American woman who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975. [1] [2] She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination and she was released from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years.
Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts in quick succession in 1975. Lynette “Sqeaky” Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, was foiled before she could fire at Ford in ...
Gerald R. Ford was the sitting president when he survived two attempts in California within three weeks in 1975, while Sunday’s assumed assassination attempt on Trump at his Florida golf club ...
President James A. Garfield with James G. Blaine after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, began at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. [a] (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977.A member of the Republican Party, Ford assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Richard Nixon, under whom he had served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 following Spiro Agnew's resignation.
Columnist writes Gerald Ford was much more than a caretaker president.