Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford
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- Synopsis
- &“Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this.&” —Publishers Weekly President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin, tracing the path from Moore&’s small-town upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president. Throughout Moore&’s dodgy life she hid her identity and misled those around her. Through the turbulent 60s and 70s, she married five times, abandoned children, faked amnesia, befriended Patty Hearst&’s father, became a revolutionary, and worked as an FBI informant turned double agent feeding information to the underground radicals, all before the assassination attempt. From Spieler&’s insider correspondence and independent research, including interviews with President Ford himself, she confirms details (the gunshot missed the President&’s head by six inches) and debunks others (Sara Jane did not &“shoot wild&” as the press had reported) to deliver a compelling profile of a society lady turned elusive assassin.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 248 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781635768237
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781635768251
- Publisher:
- Diversion Books
- Date of Addition:
- 02/07/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Geri Spieler
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.