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| ivorythumper | Dec 31 2007, 02:57 PM Post #1 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Woman Who Tried to Kill Ford Freed By PAUL ELIAS,AP SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday after 32 years behind bars. Moore, 77, was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco, where she had been serving a life sentence, the Bureau of Prisons said. Bureau spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said she had no details on why Moore was let out. But she said that with good behavior, inmates sentenced to life can apply for parole after 10 years. Moore was 40 feet away from Ford outside a hotel in San Francisco when she fired a shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975. As she raised her .38-caliber revolver and pulled the trigger, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former Marine standing next to her, pushed up her arm. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet. Two weeks earlier, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Manson's, tried to kill the president in Sacramento. In recent interviews, Moore said she regretted her actions, saying she was blinded by her radical political views and convinced that the government had declared war on the left. "I was functioning, I think, purely on adrenaline and not thinking clearly. I have often said that I had put blinders on and I was only listening to what I wanted to hear," she said a year ago in an interview with KGO-TV. During what was expected to be a routine pretrial hearing before a federal judge, Moore blurted out that she wanted to plead guilty, and her lawyer couldn't stop her. The judge immediately accepted the plea. Moore's background - which included five failed marriages, name changes and involvement with political groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army - baffled the public and even her own attorney. "I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it," said retired federal public defender James F. Hewitt. "There was just bizarre stuff." Ford insisted the two attempts on his life shouldn't prevent him from having contact with the American people. "If we can't have the opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society," he said. "I think it's important that we as a people don't capitulate to the wrong element." Ford died just over a year ago. There was no immediate comment from the Ford family on Moore's release. Calls and an e-mail seeking comment were placed to Penny Circle, who was Ford's chief of staff at the time of his death. Moore was born Sara Jane Kahn in Charleston, W.Va. She acted in high school plays and dreamed of being a film actress. In the 1970s, Moore began working for People in Need, a free food program established by millionaire Randolph Hearst in exchange for the return for his daughter Patty, who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. Moore soon became involved with radical leftists, ex-convicts and other members of San Francisco's counterculture. At this time, Moore became an informant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She has said she fired at Ford because she thought she would be killed once it was disclosed that she was an FBI informant. The bureau ended its relationship with her about four months before the assassination attempt. "I was going to go down anyway," she said in a 1982 interview with the San Jose Mercury News. "If the government was going to kill me, I was going to make some kind of statement." Moore was sent to a West Virginia women's prison in 1977. Two years later, she escaped but was captured several hours later. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Copper | Dec 31 2007, 03:08 PM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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I wonder if she has ever posted on this forum. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 31 2007, 05:03 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 3 2008, 05:04 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I believe so, Copper. Those two statements caught my eye as being very current and commonplace as well! |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Jan 3 2008, 05:05 AM Post #5 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Perhaps she has a mysterie to share with us. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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