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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last month is only one in a long line of American acts of political violence. Four sitting U.S. presidents — ...

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" ...

Former president Gerald Ford recalled the attempted assassination of Charles Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in videotaped testimony that would later be used in Fromme's trial. The roughly 20 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The release from prison today of Manson Family member and would-be ...

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.

Long before Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” even had a title or set up shop at Sony Pictures, news broke the filmmaker was eyeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to star. Pitt ...

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 ...

The woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford is expected to be released from prison on Aug. 16 after serving her sentence, a U.S. Justice Department official said on Wednesday. Lynette ...

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the creepy Manson follower who tried to kill President Ford 34 years ago, was freed from a Texas federal prison Friday. Fromme was 26 when she pointed a semiautomatic .45- ...

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