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September 13, 2007

Parole Hearing Set for Ford’s Shooter

(San Francisco, CA)  Sara Jane Moore, the middle-aged doctor’s wife turned radical, will face the federal parole board Sept. 21 after serving a life sentence of more than 30 years.

Moore, now 77, had rejected her middle class life in 1975 to join the San Francisco radical underground and a “double agent” as a paid informant for the FBI.

As Moore was feeding information from such groups as the Viet Nam Vets Against the War, New World Liberation Front and the Prisoners Union to the FBI,   she warned the underground of government actions planned against the groups.

The Secret Service detained Moore the night before her assassination attempt for the possession of an illegal firearm. However, she released because she was not seen as a threat.  The gun she had practiced with, a .44 caliber Charter Arms revolver was confiscated by the San Francisco police department. 

The next morning Moore left her Mission District apartment and bought another gun, a .38 caliber pistol.  She did not know the gun had a major flaw which saved Ford’s life. The flaw was a faulty site, off by six inches, the exact distance of the trajectory measured by the FBI from Ford’s head to where the bullet lodged in a cement pillar beyond where President Ford was standing.

When asked if she had anything to say after she was arrested, Moore said, “I’m sorry I missed.”