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In 1975, Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford outside of a San Francisco hotel.

Moore spent 32 years in jail and after being released she moved to Tennessee and later North Carolina.

Sara Jane Moore, the woman who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford, died. She was 95 years old.

The Nashville Banner was first to report news that Moore had died at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee.

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President Gerald Ford was in San Francisco to address the World Affairs Council on Sept. 22, 1975, in front of the fashionable St. Francis Hotel.

Sara Jane Moore, a former psychiatric patient, was about 50 feet away from Ford when she pulled out a gun and fired a shot at Ford, which missed.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Moore attempted

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