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Don't believe everything you read in the press...especially something written by a hippie from San Francisco:
Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford
Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but that organization had decided that she presented no danger to the President. She had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident, but she was released from arrest. The police confiscated her .44 caliber pistol and 113 rounds of pistol ammunition.
Moore was about 40 feet away from President Ford when she fired a single shot at him with a different pistol, a .38 caliber revolver. That bullet missed the President because bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the pistol from firing a second time. Sipple said at the time: "I saw [her gun] pointed out there and I grabbed for it. [...] I lunged and grabbed the woman's arm and the gun went off." The single shot which Moore did fire from her .38 caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel and it slightly injured a bystander.
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