Font Size

U.S. & World (topstories syndication domain)

Demo Content From The National Team

Celebrity Mug Shots

E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

Would-Be Gerald Ford Assassin To Be Released

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

Recipient E-mail:*
- Your Name:*
- Your E-mail:*
Add a Message:
Send me a copy of this e-mail.

Type the characters in this picture:*

Click here to refresh with new letters

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

Print Share +

Aug 5, 2009 6:30 pm US/Eastern

Would-Be Gerald Ford Assassin To Be Released

HOUSTON (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Gerald Ford, left, is sworn in as the 38th president of The United States next to his wife Betty and chief of Justice Warren Burger in Washington, D.C.
STR/AFP/Getty Images

Close

numSlides of totalImages

The Charles Manson follower convicted of attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford is set to be released from a Texas federal prison later this month after serving more than 30 years behind bars.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was a 26-year-old disciple of the cult murderer Manson when she aimed a semiautomatic pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif.

A Secret Service agent grabbed her and Ford was unhurt.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the court-appointed attorney who represented Fromme at trial say the now 60-year-old is to be released from the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, on Aug. 16.

Demo Content From The National Team