SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Newly released footage shows President Gerald Ford calmly and carefully recalling how Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson disciple, tried to kill him in a Sacramento park.
The roughly 20-minute interview taped in Washington for Fromme's trial was released Monday by a federal court as the result of a motion filed by a Sacramento historical group.
In the tape, Ford gestures gently with his hands and sips water as he answers questions from a lawyer about what began as a routine morning in September 1975 before Fromme pushed through a crowd on the street, drew a semi-automatic pistol and pointed it at Ford.
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