Lynette Fromme sits in a U.S. marshal's car in Sacramento after her attempt to assassinate President Ford. (Walt Zeboski / Associated Press) Nine weeks after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump in ...

(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento received its first presidential visit nearly 150 years ago in 1879, and since then, it has had a relatively modest relationship with U.S. presidents who have stepped inside ...

Mild spoiler for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The new film from director Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, portrays multiple members of the cult known as the Manson Family in major ...

To this day the late Charles Manson still has a hold over his “family” members. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was a teenager with nowhere to go when she met the infamous cult leader, who ordered two ...

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SACRAMENTO, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A judge in Sacramento, Calif., OK'd the release of taped testimony by President Gerald Ford later used when Lynette Fromme was tried for trying to kill him. U.S. District ...

John Hinckley thought his actions could save Jody Foster, and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme thought hers would help Charles Manson save the world. Both attempted to assassinate their president. Both were ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The would-be assassin of President Gerald Ford, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, walked out of a federal prison in Texas Friday, a prison spokesman said. Fromme, a ...

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 1975 file photo, Lynette Fromme sits in a U.S. Marshal's auto in Sacramento, Calif. Frome, the Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford, ...

In the 50 years since members of the so-called Manson Family murdered nine people in a savage killing spree in California, the mystique surrounding the murderous cult leader hasn’t dissipated. That’s ...

Giuseppe Zangara sitting in court in 1933, charged with the assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak and the attempted assassination of President Roosevelt. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, 24, tells ...

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