For those thinking this shit today is gonna help Trump for the election.
It didn’t help President Ford (R).
He had two assassination attempts during his short stint as POTUS and lost to Gov. Jimmy Carter (D) in 1976.
A LOOK AT THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS PLOTTED AGAINST GERALD FORD
BY*SAMANTHA SANDERS
DEC. 30, 2020
President Gerald Ford managed to survive not just one, but two serious attempts on his life in the space of just 17 days -- both committed by women.
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A MANSON FAMILY MEMBER'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST GERALD FORD
The first attempt to kill President Ford occurred on September 5, 1975, when 26-year-old Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme pulled out a Colt .45-cailber pistol at a crowded park in Sacramento, California, as NBC News reports.*President Ford was in the park greeting people on his way to speak at a breakfast hosted by then-Governor Jerry Brown.
Just a few years earlier, Fromme had gained notoriety as one of Charles Manson's "family" members. While she was never tried for any of the crimes the "family" committed, she was one of the infamous female Manson supporters who'd sat vigil at his trial for the Tate and LaBianca murders and who'd carved Xs into the foreheads as a show of solidarity with Manson and as a form of protest, as Oxygen writes.
It's perhaps unsurprising then that protest was what once again provoked Fromme to plot against Ford. On the day of the assassination attempt, Fromme dressed all in red as a sign of solidarity with the California Redwoods, which (per All That's Interesting)*she allegedly believed were endangered due to Ford's environmental policies.*Politico*says that,*after raising her gun, Fromme was pulled to the ground by a Secret Service agent while exclaiming. "It didn't go off. Can you believe it? It didn't go off." Ford was uninjured and went on to make his scheduled speech. His topic? Crime.
President Gerald Ford is shielded by the Secret Service after an assassination attempt by Lynette
A FORMER FBI INFORMANT'S ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT FORD
Just 17 days later, another California woman, Sara Jane Moore, would make her assassination attempt against Ford in San Francisco. Unlike Fromme, however, she managed to fire. As Politico writes, a bystander (and ex-Marine) named Oliver Sipple instinctively grabbed Moore's arm. In another fortuitous turn of events for Ford, the .38 she'd used had a faulty sight, causing her aim to be off. She was more used to using a .44 and, per an excerpt from the Mel Ayton book Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts — From FDR to Obama*(posted at History on the Net) later said that if she'd "had my .44 with me I would have caught him." Richard Vitamanti, the FBI case agent, agreed, adding, "She would have had at least a head shot."
As a further strange circumstance in the case, Moore had just wrapped up work as an FBI informant a few months earlier. Though her specific motives for the attempt remain unclear, Moore herself later speculated that she felt the government had declared war on the left. "I was functioning, I think, purely on adrenaline and not thinking clearly, she told KGO-TV in a later interview, posted on the website of the Press Democrat. "I have often said that I had put blinders on and I was only listening to what I wanted to hear."
President Gerald Ford (R)