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geri-spieler's picture
Jun.01.2009
Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name? The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her. But we hear nothing about the person who foiled Moore's second shot. He...
geri-spieler's picture
Jan.22.2009
In the span of 18 months, Sara Jane Moore went from being a housewife in Danville to a wannabe political assassin in San Francisco. Moore, who in 1975 became the only female to fire a shot at the president of the United States (Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme aimed at President...
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Dec.04.2008
It is a strange thing writing about presidential assassination during a presidential inaugeration! I'm very pleased about our president elect. However, even I were not, I don't want to see our ountry go through what we experienced in 1964.  Yet, all my research for my book, Taking Aim at the...
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Aug.28.2008
In May, 1980, Sara Jane Moore called me from prison at Alderson, West Virginia, where she was incarcerated. At the time I was living in  my mountain home in Pollock Pines, California. She asked, no begged me, to save her art collection from disposal  by driving to San Francisco and rescuing her few...
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Aug.28.2008
              Wife, mother, radical, spy. Charming, talented, enormously complex, possibly brilliant, deeply flawed, Sara Jane Moore is an unlikely assassin indeed. She began life in a wholesome, musical West Virginia family, trained as a nurse, and joined the WACs. Then she became an all-American...