Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme shown here baking cookies for her former "family".
From Reuters:
Woman who tried to kill Ford released from prison
Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:09pm EDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 and was a follower of mass murderer Charles Manson, was released from a Texas prison on Friday after serving her sentence, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
Fromme, 60, had been serving a life sentence for the assassination attempt but was eligible for parole almost 25 years ago. She had waived her right to parole previously and chose to remain in prison.
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Fromme had told her defense attorney she staged the attack on Ford because she "wanted to get some attention for a new trial" for Manson and members of his group.
Whether Fromme deserved her exit visa from the House of Many Doors or not, I suspect that if the woman who darned Charlie Manson's socks and then went on to jam a gun in a President's face had looked more like this,
they would be keeping her in stir until the end of time.
3 comments:
'...she staged the attack on Ford because she "wanted to get some attention for a new trial" for Manson and members of his group.'
At least she had the good taste not to try impressing Jodie Foster.
;>)
Angela made out fine for herself, tenured at Santa Cruz and now retired to a life of activism and speakers' fees. A comparison to Leonard Peltier, an American Indian convicted (in what many call a show trial) of killing FBI agents in a shootout, who 33 years later does still rot in jail, would be more fitting.
why do i think Squeaks will end up where all the felons and scum end up - on Fox News as a hostess with the mostess
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