Sara Jane Moore 32 Years on Jail

Sara Jane Moore Tried to kill president Ford and spent 32 years in prison.

On September 22, 1975 in San Francisco, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at President Ford that missed his head by several feet. A bystander wrestled her to the ground before she was taken into custody by authorities.

It's unclear why she felt killing President Ford would have done anything about it, but she declares that to this day she believes if she hadn't made the attempt someone else would have:

"Oh, I still think that. If I hadn't done it, someone else would have. That was the tenor of the time. There was more talk about it than people realize. Again, I thought that what was happening to us there in San Francisco was the whole world and it wasn't. I had to learn later that everybody didn't feel that way"

Sara Jane Moore was born on February 15, 1930. Sara Jane Moore, an accountant who was already steeped in the Bay Area’s radical politics, volunteered to be the group’s bookkeeper. At the time, Sara Jane Moore was also an FBI informant, but apparently never rose far in the bureau’s arsenal of snitches. That was in early 1974.

On Sept. 5, 1975, Squeaky Fromme made the first assassination attempt on Ford. Four days later, Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot Ford.

Sara Jane Moore eventually pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to assassinate Ford and in January 1976 was sentenced to life in prison. Sara Jane Moore spent the next 31 years in obscurity, her existence punctuated occasionally by reminders of her erstwhile notoriety.

Today, Sara Jane Moore looks like a kind-hearted, adoring grandmother and would probably mingle at a library.

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