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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 10:50 PM Apr 2014

Judge releases audiotape of 'Squeaky' Fromme's mental exam after Ford assassination attempt

Source: Sacramento Bee

... Nearly 39 years after the former Manson “family” member leveled a Colt .45-caliber pistol at President Gerald R. Ford in Sacramento’s Capitol Park, one of the last and most intriguing pieces of evidence from the case has been made available to the public: the audiotape of Lynette Alice “Squeaky” Fromme's pretrial psychiatric examination while she was being held in jail.

The 132-minute recording offers a glimpse into the mindset of the would-be assassin and her matter-of-fact demeanor as she tries to convince the psychiatrist that she should be allowed to act as her own lawyer at trial.

U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller granted release of the recording in response to a motion filed in November by The Sacramento Bee. The judge’s order, issued last week, followed her decision in August to release another historic piece of evidence: the videotaped deposition of President Ford, part of the evidence used by the government to obtain a guilty verdict from a jury.

The Fromme recording, portions of which can be heard on www.sacbee.com/history, was made Sept. 21, 1975, just more than two weeks after Fromme, then 26, aimed her pistol at the president while he was on his way to a meeting with then-and-current Gov. Jerry Brown.


Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/23/6348484/judge-releases-audio-tape-of-squeaky.html

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Judge releases audiotape of 'Squeaky' Fromme's mental exam after Ford assassination attempt (Original Post) Newsjock Apr 2014 OP
Hard to believe that was nearly forty years ago. Seems like a few years, just. nt MADem Apr 2014 #1
The other woman, Sara Jane Moore, who made an attempt on Ford is now 84. Kaleva Apr 2014 #2
I just read she was released from jail in 2009... Archae Apr 2014 #3
But didn't you know? Archae Apr 2014 #4

Archae

(46,335 posts)
3. I just read she was released from jail in 2009...
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 11:55 PM
Apr 2014

I wonder what she's doing right now.

Besides getting older.
(She is 66 now)

Archae

(46,335 posts)
4. But didn't you know?
Thu Apr 24, 2014, 12:14 AM
Apr 2014

The two attempts were set up by the CIA, the BFEE, the Mafia and Cuba!

There's absolutely *NO* way they could have come up with their plan to kill Ford on their own!

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