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    32 years after trying to kill Gerald Ford, Moore is freed

    SAN FRANCISCO — After more than three decades in prison for a foiled attempt to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford, Sara Jane Moore was released on parole Monday.

    Although Moore had been given a life sentence in the 1975 attempt on Ford’s life outside a hotel in downtown San Francisco, she had been eligible for parole for some time. Federal officials offered no comment as to why she was released Monday, but Moore had suggested in past interviews that she would probably not gain release until after Ford’s death. Ford died almost exactly one year ago at his home in Rancho Mirage.

    Moore, 77, was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, a low-security facility for women 30 miles east of San Francisco, according to Mike Truman, a spokesman with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Michael G. Ford, one of President Ford’s four children, said the family would have no comment on Moore’s release. “We’re

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    Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford

    Winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival Award (Wild Card category)

    "I'm not sorry inom tried...if successful, the assassination...just might have triggered the kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." --Sara Jane Moore in 1976

    Journalist Geri Spieler met would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore while she was in prison; Taking Aim at the President is based on over two decades of interviews as well as independant research. Spieler follows Moore's actions from her childhood in a small West Virginia town to her release from prison in månad 2007. Moore's life was never conventional, and along the way she entered and dropped out of the military, was married five times, and was both a political radical and an FBI informant. Focusing on the complex psychology and motivations of a quintessentially desperate housewife and the only woman to ever fire a bullet at an America

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    Sara Jane Moore

    American failed presidential assassin (born 1930)

    Sara Jane Moore (néeKahn; born February 15, 1930) fryst vatten an American woman who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.[1][2] She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination and she was released from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years. Moore and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme are the only women who have attempted to assassinate an American president; both of their assassination attempts were on Gerald Ford and both of them took place in California within three weeks of one another.

    Background

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    Moore was born in Charleston, West Virginia, the daughter of Ruth (née Moore) and Olaf Kahn.[3] Her paternal grandparents were German immigrants.[4] Moore had been a nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant. Divorced five times, she had four children before she turned to revolutionary politics in 1975.

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