The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/25/sarah-jane-moore-the-unassuming-radical-who-took-a-shot-at-the-president-in-sf-dies-at-95/Sarah Jane Moore, one of two would-be assassins who took aim at President Gerald Ford in the span of three weeks in the summer of 1975, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 95 — just two days after the 50th anniversary of her fateful act. Moore infamously pulled out a gun and fired two shots outside Union Square's St. Francis Hotel as President Ford was exiting the hotel on September 22, 1975. Her first shot missed, and her second shot might have been closer were it not for the intervening hand of Oliver Sipple, a former Marine and closeted gay man who was briefly deemed a hero — and forcibly outed by Harvey

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