Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, died on Wednesday at the age of 95, according to reports.
Moore died at a nursing facility in Franklin, Tennessee, according to the Nashville Banner. She moved to the area in 2022 after being released from prison in 2007.
On Sept. 22, 1975, the 45-year-old twice-divorced West Virginia native fired off two rounds at Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, according to The New York Times.
Moore missed the first shot with the .38 caliber pistol by just six inches — and was tackled during the second shot attempt by Marine Oliver Sipple. The second shot’s ricochet wounded a cab driver but Ford was uninjured.
“If I had had my .44, I would have caught him,” Moore told San Francisco cops after being arrested, the Times reported.
Two weeks after her arrest Moore revealed to The New York Times that she was previously an FBI informant who reported on the activities of the several leftist groups where she volunteered, including “People-In-Need” — a food distribution organization designed to gain the release of kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst..
Moore claimed that in 1974 she learned about leftist ideology from FBI agents, who taught her in hope that it would facilitate her infiltration activities, the Times reported.
The FBI confirmed to the Gray Lady that Moore was an informant.
Moore’s assassination attempt came just 17 days after Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, of the infamous Manson family, tried and failed to kill Ford in Sacramento, Calif. Fromme pointed the gun at Ford but did not fire a bullet.
In an interview with CNN in 2015, Moore said she got the idea because “everybody was talking about” assassinating Ford.
Moore “really truly” thought there was going to be a revolution believing killing Ford, who is the only modern president never to receive a vote, would trigger the fall of the government, she told CNN.
She also bizarrely brushed back insinuations that decades in jail rehabilitated her mindset and insisted that she has “always been a good citizen.”
In illuminating footage from the Banner, Moore reflects on her assassination attempt while watching live coverage of the attempt on then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s life in Butler Pennsylvania in July 2024.
“Its been so long ago and I’ve deliberately not thought about it,” she Moore said from a hospital bed. “It happened so it happened.”
“And I went on with my life after that. It cost me a little bit — well a lot. You know I did 34 years in prison,” she lamented.
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