On this day, Sept. 22, in 1975, President Gerald Ford survived the second assassination attempt in 17 days.
Sarah Jane Moore — a native of Charleston, W.Va. and a political radical — aimed a .38-caliber pistol at Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. But her attempt was thwarted by a bystander, Oliver Supple, who grabbed Moore’s arm and pulled her to the ground.
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