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President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office one by a young woman in Charles Mansons Family Lynette Squeaky Fromme and the other by a far more unlikely candidatean average middleaged mother of fiveSara Jane Moore After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin tracing the path from Moores smalltown upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president

Throughout Moores dodgy life she hid her identity and misled those around her Through the turbulent 60s and 70s she married five times abandoned children faked amnesia befriended Patty Hearsts father became a revolutionary and worked as an FBI informant turned double agent feeding information to the underground radicals all before the assassination attempt

From Spielers insider correspondence and independent research including interviews with President Ford himself she confirms details the gunshot missed the Presidents head by six inches and debunks others Sara Jane did not shoot wild as the press had reported to deliver a compelling profile of a society lady turned elusive assassin