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 Sacramentos 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 judges 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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(135,425 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)Archae
(46,335 posts)I wonder what she's doing right now.
Besides getting older.
(She is 66 now)
Archae
(46,335 posts)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!