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...personal life, and probably has some kind of sexual problems. Feeling rejected by his parents, he will likely seek reassurance in some larger paternalistic group, like the military. Both Moore and Fromme fit the otherwise male pattern. Moore was a WAC, and Fromme was a slave in Charles Manson's regimented family. Even in that larger group, however, the potential assassin will almost inevitably find or feel rejection...
...other woman who aimed a gun at Ford passed her sanity tests last week. Squeaky Fromme, the Charles Manson family follower who is being held in the Sacramento County Jail, was adjudged mentally competent to stand trial, set to begin Nov. 4. Federal Judge Thomas J. MacBride ruled that she can act as her own lawyer, as she wishes, working with Public Defender E. Richard Walker. Referring to some of the extraneous issues Squeaky had cited as vaguely behind her decision to flash a revolver from out of a Sacramento crowd, the judge said he would bar any "ecology statements...
...Hearst estate, she boasted that she had entered through the front door, implying that quality respected quality. Actually, she was born on Feb. 15,1930, into a middle-class family in Charleston, W. Va., where a candy-store keeper remembers that both she and, a few years later, Charles Manson, another Charleston resident, shopped for sweets. Her family name was Kahn; Moore is her mother's maiden name. After high school, she joined the WACS and received her first newspaper notice in the early 1950s by collapsing, suffering from amnesia, in front of the White House...
...found no direct links between the attempts to kill Ford and the state's hard-core revolutionaries. Lynette Fromme was a follower of the psychopathic murderer Charles Manson; Sara Jane Moore tried to move from the left fringes and join the extreme radicals, but was never accepted. On the other hand, the underground radicals helped Patty Hearst and the other Symbionese Liberation Army fugitives elude the FBI for a year and a half...
During the next six months, he met many of the radical organization's top members. He recalls one memorable strategy session in Flint, Mich., when Bernardine Dohrn exulted over the grisly details of the murders committed by the Manson family. At one point, she exclaimed: "Not only did they kill those pigs, they shoved a fork in [Sharon] Tate's stomach and then sat down and ate dinner there." Dohrn's details were wrong-it was Leno LaBianca who was stabbed with a fork-but her enthusiasm was catching. Says Grathwohl: "For the next several days...