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Sara Jane Moore, Who Tried to Kill President Ford, Dies at 95

The Nashville Banner’s Demetria Kalodimos confirmed her death after a 32-year sentence with parole in 2007.

** FILE ** Sara Jane Moore looks out the window of a U.S. marshal's car in San Francisco, seen in this Dec. 16, 1975, file photo, on her way to the federal court where U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti accepted her plea of guilty to the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
This Sept. 22, 1975 file photo shows Secret Service agents grabbing President Gerald Ford to push him in the armor protected limo outside the St. Francis Hotel after a shot was fired. 
Oliver Sipple, left, lunges for Sara Jane Moore, right, behind pole, in this Sept. 22, 1975 file photo, just after a shot was fired in the direction of then-President Gerald Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. 
Sara Jane Moore on the set of the NBC's "Today" Show in 2009.

Overview

  • Moore died at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, two days after the 50th anniversary of her 1975 assassination attempt.
  • On Sept. 22, 1975, she fired two shots at President Gerald Ford outside San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel as bystander Oliver W. Sipple deflected her aim; the second shot ricocheted and grazed a taxi driver.
  • Investigators said police had seized her .44-caliber handgun the day before, leading her to use a .38 with a faulty sight, and Ford was not hit.
  • She moved in activist circles, worked with People in Need, and was at times an FBI informant connected to the Patty Hearst and Symbionese Liberation Army saga.
  • In later years she lived under a new name, was briefly jailed in 2019 for a parole violation tied to overseas travel, and became bedridden after a 2022 fall.