LOS ANGELES - A one-time follower of mass murderer Charles Manson who in 1975 tried to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford told a mental health examiner in a decades-old taped interview that an "X" ...

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FORT WORTH, Texas – The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

Fifty years ago, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme made local and national headlines for an assassination attempt on President Gerald R. Ford in Sacramento’s Capitol Park. Ford was on his way to meet then Gov.

John Hinckley thought his actions could save Jody Foster, and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme thought hers would help Charles Manson save the world. Both attempted to assassinate their president. Both were ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Gerald Ford recalled seeing a hand holding a large handgun slipping through a crowd at a Sacramento park before a Secret Service agent lunged at Charles Manson ...

Who of my generation can forget Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, the first woman to attempt to assassinate a U.S. president? Today, almost 40 years after Fromme donned a flowing red robe, strapped on a Colt ...

John Edward Virga, who over the course of a 57-year career became one of Sacramento’s most prominent and successful attorneys, died July 14. He was 84. Virga, the only lawyer to take testimony from a ...