Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had attempted to assassinate Ford. [1] Moore was 40 feet away from the President [2] when she fired a single shot at him. The bullet missed the President because bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the gun from firing a second time. [3][4] The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel [5] and slightly injured a bystander.[6] February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Official website: www. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... This article contains nonstandard pronunciation information which should be rewritten using the International Phonetic Alphabet (see IPA in Unicode and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation) for help). ... Oliver Billy Sipple (November 20, 1941 - February 2, 1989) was a Vietnam War veteran, who saved the life of U.S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt in San Francisco on September 22, 1975. ...

Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President. [7]

A former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant, Moore had five husbands before she turned to revolutionary politics in her forties. [8] Nursing is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families, and communities in attaining, re-attaining, and maintaining optimal health and functioning. ... WACs operate Teletype machines during World War II. The Womens Army Corps (WAC) was a special unit of the United States Army during World War II and thereafter which organized the female enlisted personnel. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, or Accountancy Practitioner, is an accountancy and financial experts legally certified in different jurisdictions to originally worked only in public practices, selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses, but today in addition many work within private corporations, financial industry and government...

Moore's friends said she was obsessed with Patty Hearst. [9] After Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her father Randolph Hearst created the organization People in Need (P.I.N.) to feed the poor, in order to answer S.L.A. claims that the elder Hearst was "committing 'crimes' against 'the people.'" Moore was a bookkeeper for P.I.N. and an FBI informant when she attempted to assassinate Ford. Hearst posing for an SLA picture Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), better known as Patty Hearst, now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress and occasional actress. ... The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American paramilitary group that considered itself to be a revolutionary vanguard army and was a proponent of radical ideology. ... Randolph Apperson Hearst (December 2, 1915 - December 18, 2000) was the last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst. ... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process of maintaining, auditing, and processing financial information for business purposes. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Moore pleaded guilty [10] to attempted assassination and was sentenced to life in prison [11] [12]. In 1989, Moore escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia [13], but turned herself in two days later. After her return, she was transferred to a more secure facility. [14] She is currently serving at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California. [15] Life imprisonment is a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ... Alderson Federal Prison Camp, also known as Federal Prison Camp, Alderson or FPC Alderson, is a federal prison in the United States for minimum-security female inmates. ... Alderson is a town located in West Virginia. ... The public library in Dublin Dublin is a city located in Alameda County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 29,973. ...

In an interview in 2004, former President Ford described Moore as "off her mind" and said that he continued making public appearances, even after two attempts on his life within such a short time, because "a president has to be aggressive, has to meet the people." [16]

Popular Culture

In Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins, Moore is portrayed as a flaky accident-waiting-to-happen who can't wield a gun properly; in the Gun Song (the only song she sings outside of the Assassins as a group) when she "squeezes her little finger to change the world" along with the boys, hers goes off although theirs do not, and in Everybody's Got the Right the Proprietor reminds her "Don't forget that guns can go boom," when she accidentally aims hers at him. Along with Fromme, she serves as a bit of comic relief before major events in the musical, such as Guiteau's assassination of James Garfield. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ... John Weidman is an American librettist. ... Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman and was based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. ... Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American lawyer with a history of mental illness who assassinated President James Garfield on July 2, 1881. ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881) and the second U.S. President to be assassinated (Abraham Lincoln was the first). ...

Quotes

• "I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos." [17] [18]
• "I didn’t want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun." [19]

External links

• Photograph of both Sipple and Moore taken during the assassination attempt; the black arrow points to Moore.
• Photograph of Ford and his Secret Service agents taken just after Moore fired her shot.
• Photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.
• More photographs of both the Fromme and Moore assassination attempts from the Ford Presidential Library.