"Sentenced to life, Moore was serving her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, when she was unexpectedly paroled Dec. 31, 2007. Federal officials gave no details on why she was set free. She lived largely anonymously in an undisclosed location after that, but in broadcast interviews she expressed regret for what she had done. She said she had been caught up in the radical political movements that were common in California in the mid-1970s."
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sara Jane Moore, who was imprisoned for more than 30 years after she made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died. She was 95. Moore died Wednesday at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, according to Demetria Kalodimos, a longtime acquaintance who said she was informed by the executor of Moore's estate. Kalodimos is an executive producer at the Nashville Banner newspaper, which was first to report the death."
Sara Jane Moore died at 95 in a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee. She was imprisoned for more than 30 years after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. Moore was unexpectedly paroled on Dec. 31, 2007, with federal officials giving no details on the release. She lived largely anonymously afterward but said in broadcast interviews that she regretted her actions and had been caught up in radical political movements in California in the mid-1970s. Moore sometimes served as an FBI informant and had begun dabbling in leftist groups before the shooting. She was often confused with Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, who attempted to shoot Ford earlier in September 1975.
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