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Shasta542:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on June 18, 2008, 11:43:10 pm ---there were actually two attempts on President Ford's life in the brief time he was in office during the mid 1970's. One attempt was thwarted by a gay man, who I believe tackled the would be shooter.
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Was he controversial? I can't remember that. I know a lot of people were kinda mad that he pardoned Nixon. I was glad that he did. Wasn't one of his would-be assassins a woman?
brokeplex:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/28/ap/politics/mainD8M9IL2G2.shtml
here is information about the 2 women who attempted to assasinate Pres Ford on two separate occasions.
Shasta542:
Thanks, brokeplex.
Interesting. I didn't know both attempts were by women. Wonder what he did to tick them off that badly? I guess the one from the Manson crew was drugged out. I wonder what kind of extra security he had after 2 attempts in less than a month.
brokeplex:
It was a strange time, that aftermath period after Nixon's resignation. I was attending a school in Europe when Ford first assumed office before I went off to attend college at UT. I remember the surreal quality to the both events, they even seemed staged to me as I was reading about the attempted assassinations in French and Spanish newspapers.
I did get to see Pres Ford when he came thru Madrid while I was in the city. When I got back to the States, I discovered all of this fuss being made about the Georgia Gov, Jimmy Carter. Until "Jimma" won the Iowa caucuses, we all thought that either Hubert Humphrey or Scoop Jackson would be the nominee of the Democrats. After listening just one time to Carter, I immediately went to the Ford campaign in Austin and signed on to seal envelopes, hand out flyers, do anything to help Pres Ford carry TX in November.
KristinDaBomb:
I want Obama to win. But who WILL win? I'm not so sure.
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