Fromme gaoled for life
| SACRAMENTO (Califotmai December 18. I. yne t t e (•‘Squeaky") Fromme. a follower of the imprisoned murder-cult leader. Charles Manson, today begins a life prison term after her conviction foi (trying to assassinate PrestIdent l ord. j During sentencing tester I day. Fromme. aged 27. hurled an apple at the prose cutor. hitting him on the temple, and tried to give the Court a lecture on pollution. | Judge Thomas J. Macßride .told het: "Had John KenInedy. Robert Kennedy, or I Martin Luther King been allowed to live out their lives, rather than having fallen at the hands of terroriists like yourself, they could have accomplished more for our environment, and for all mankind, than all the terrorists in the history of the world — vou and Charles Manson included." In San Francisco, a second 1 woman found guilty of trying to kill President Ford, Sara Jane Moore, faces sen fencing on January 15. She fired a shot at Mr Ford on September 22. Fromme pointed a loaded, but uncocked, .45-calibre pistol at the President as he walked outside the California State Capitol on September 5.
After sentencing. Fromme was carried from the Court screaming "You animals ”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34030, 19 December 1975, Page 9
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