On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:50:21 GMT, Fred J McCall wrote:
Cub Driver wrote:

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:Ford Yes ( in an impersonal way )
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:He was shot at by Squeaky From. That was pretty personal.

Well, no, he wasn't. He was AIMED AT by Squeaky Fromme. The gun was
not loaded.

Y'all are forgetting Sarah Jane Moore, who did fire a shot at Gerald Ford
outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on 22 September 1975 (7 days
after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme's attempt to shoot him outside the California
State House in Sacramento). Moore had a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver. A
bystander named Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm when he saw the gun and
the shot went wild, wounding a cab driver who was nearby.

Fromme's .45 automatic was loaded (rounds in the magazine), but she either
didn't know she had to work the weapon's slide to chamber a round or forgot
to do it. According to at least one account, she shouted, "It didn't go off.
It didn't go off. Can you believe it?" as she was being handcuffed by a
Secret Service agent, so apparently Fromme intended to shoot Ford. She
most likely would have succeeded if she'd been more familiar with the
gun she tried to use.


ljd