Obituary: Would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, 95, has died, eighteen years after she was paroled. She shot then-president Gerald Ford in 1975, around the same time Manson follower Lynette Fromme had done the same thing. Both women were eventually released after Ford died of old age or something related in 2006. Moore was paroled in 2007, while Fromme was paroled in 2009. Moore died two days after the assassination attempt.
Moore was born Sara Jane Kahn on Feb. 15, 1930, in Charleston, West Virginia. Her confusing background, which included multiple failed marriages, name changes and involvement with both leftist political groups and the FBI, baffled the public and even her own defense attorney during her trial.
“I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it,” retired federal public defender James F. Hewitt once said. “There was just bizarre stuff, and she would never tell anyone anything about her background.”
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Newt Gingrich (remember him?) even sounds stupider than before when he accuses a politician of something she had nothing to do with because she wasn't in office.
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