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US President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin dies at age 95

Sara Jane Moore, who fired a handgun at US President Gerald Ford in an attempted assassination outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975, has died, according to US media.

Moore, who was sentenced to life in prison but was freed on parole in her final years, was 95.

Her attack came just days after Ford, a Republican, was targeted in an unrelated murder plot by associates of cult leader Charles Manson.

Ford was not injured in Moore's attack, which she said was intended to spark an American revolution. Her death comes amid renewed attention to presidential security following two attempts on President Donald Trump's life.


On 22 September, 1975, Moore fired a .38-caliber revolver she had purchased hours earlier at Ford, but missed.

A former US Marine standing nearby her in the crowd of some 3,000 people then subdued her, forcing her to miss her second shot.

She had been arrested a day earlier after a security official spotted her with a gun at a crowd gathered for Ford. That gun was confiscated, leading her to purchase another gun.

The mother-of-four from California pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. She served 32 years before she was released on parole.

Her attack on Ford occurred just 17 days after Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme pointed a gun at the then-president but failed to fire a shot before she was apprehended.

Moore's death came just days after the 50th anniversary of her attempt.

In a 2009 interview with NBC News, Moore said she had become radicalised by social upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s.

"It was a time that people don't remember. You know we had a war... the Vietnam War, you became, I became immersed in it. We were saying the country needed to change," she said.

"The only way it was going to change was a violent revolution. I genuinely thought that [shooting Ford] might trigger that new revolution in this country."

Investigators found no connections with revolutionary groups, and judged her to be legally sane.

On Tuesday, Ryan Routh was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course in September last year.

He will be sentenced on 18 December and is facing up to life in prison.

Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmeln4p44zo

Morbeta11:
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmeln4p44zo

Sara Jane Moore, who fired a handgun at US President Gerald Ford in an attempted assassination outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975, has died, according to US media.

This caption is funny...
I am still uneasy from the assassination of my country Nigeria

May she rest in perfect peace, people wei like their country.

Waitin concern us na
23 more characters needed. Ok

Na wa o

Na wetin I wan write now .

I don tire to write self

She’ll never try it again.

Happy Independence Day.

She reminds of selena's assassination. The muderer is now in her 70s and will soon been given parole like this too.

This thread is why you should never allow anyone kill you.

They'll cut your life short, beg for forgiveness and end up living long life

God kept her for almost a century. She would have met Ford by now.

davodyguy:
This thread is why you should never allow anyone kill you.

They'll cut your life short, beg for forgiveness and end up living long life

Guide your life with everything,I’m sure she’d enjoy female privileges in person Seff

Who would have known her if not her assassination attempt?

The same guy that attempted to assassinate 🔫us president Ronald Regan did it to impress an actress he had a crush on.

No matter how long, we will all die eventually. Nobody should give me headache abeg

Was she woke?
Or does that only apply to today's assassin's who end up being far-right whack jobs?

She got radicalised by social and political propaganda and made grave mistake.

At the end of the day, life assassinates everyone no matter what

At the END EVERYONE DIES and leaves this world.
At the END EVERYONE DIES and leaves this world.

People get mind a whole president u wanted to kill...well she's lucky it happened in USA and that she missed the shot ,because in Africa she would have died that very moment eventhough she missed the shots...overzealous officer would have shot her dead immediately....she even died very old 95years is not easy

She was hell bent on killing Ford but failed. She was not paying attention enough, there were signs that she would fail but still went ahead. Spent many years behind the bars, such a pitiable dismal pismal

WELLWlSHER29:
United states and assassination are like 5 and 6

Any idea why this has not stopped us blacks from fleeing there and other oyinbo countries, in voluntary slavery to increase the development gap between our two races?

anonimi:
The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience

The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.

Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.

Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.

https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-migrant-crisis-in-libya-and-the-nigeria-experience/

Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

TheBedWench:
The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood)[1][2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).

This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]

The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.

Matrixoba:
At the end of the day, life assassinates everyone no matter what

lightwind:
At the END EVERYONE DIES and leaves this world.
At the END EVERYONE DIES and leaves this world.

How do you expect the damages caused before the end of the person’s life to be remedied

She was celebrated for the nonsense act. Oti ye mi Dada.

United States citizens with trying to assassinate their presidents no be today e start

Who is Gerald Ford?

Someone please tell me who he's...

She was a strong woman.
America will surely miss her.
Her legacy will be a testament to the life she lived.
Adieu, Sara Jane Moore.
May your soul rest in peace.

That's serious.
She comitted the act at 45, and was already a mother of 4 at the time.
Perhaps she was divorced and fed up with the joys of motherhood, or I don't understand.

And then spent 32 in jail.
Damn!