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Sara Jane Moore, Would-Be Assassin of President Ford, Dies at 95

Her death was confirmed by a Nashville journalist at a Franklin, Tennessee nursing home.

** 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 fired two shots at President Gerald Ford outside San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel in 1975; bystander Oliver W. Sipple deflected her arm and the president was unharmed.
  • She pleaded guilty, received a life sentence, served roughly 32 years in federal prison, and was paroled in 2007.
  • The Nashville Banner first reported her death, which occurred two days after the 50th anniversary of the attempt; no cause has been announced.
  • Authorities detained her the day before the shooting and confiscated a .44-caliber handgun; she then bought a .38 with a faulty sight and used it the next day.
  • Moore moved in Bay Area activist circles, served at times as an FBI informant, and later said she hoped the attack would spark a violent revolution.