Sarah Jane Moore: The Housewife Who Shot at Ford

In September 1975, a suburban bookkeeper and mother of four raised a revolver 40 feet from President Gerald Ford outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. This episode examines the chaotic life of Sarah Jane Moore, and how an unmoored woman searching for identity and belonging came within six inches of altering American history.We trace her constant reinventions across careers, five marriages, and shifting identities, her entanglement as both an FBI informant and a radical sympathizer during the Patty Hearst saga, and the cascade of missed red flags that preceded her assassination attempt.Carrying the driver's license of a different woman named Sarah Moore when arrestedBookkeeping for the People in Need charity while informing for the FBIPolice confiscating her .44 revolver and ammunition just one day before the attemptHow the misaligned sights on a hastily bought .38 caused her to missBystander Oliver Sipple deflecting her second shot, and her later parole in 2007