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Today in History: Sara Jane Moore fails to kill President Ford
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- On September 22, 1975, accountant and former FBI informant Sara Jane Moore tried to shoot President Gerald Ford. Unfamiliar with her weapon, she missed, and Secret Service agents immediately arrested her, averting the assassination of the 38th U.S. president who had taken office after Nixon’s resignation.