AP file: Sara Jane Moore looks out a U.S. marshal's car in San Francisco, seen in this Dec. 16, 1975, file photo, on her way to the federal court where the judge accepted her plea of guilty to the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.Would-be assassin of President Ford freed
Moore, 77, tried to shoot president outside hotel in 1975
ASSOCIATED PRESS, updated: Mon., Dec. 31, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a 1975 assassination attempt, was released from prison Monday.
Moore, 77, had served about 30 years of a life sentence when she was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
She was 40 feet away from Ford outside a hotel in San Francisco when she fired a shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975. As she raised her .38-caliber revolver and pulled the trigger, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former Marine standing next to her, pushed up her arm. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet.
In recent interviews, Moore said she regretted her actions, saying she was blinded by her radical political views.
"I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try," Moore said a year ago in an interview with KGO-TV.
Just 17 days before Moore's attempt, Ford survived an attempt on his life in Sacramento by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson.
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