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...leveled a gun at the President during the trip, but there were a number of sharp encounters along the way. During the Chicago visit, a policeman near the Hilton asked to look into the purse of Carmen T. Pulido, 37, and found a .25-cal. pistol. She was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, although she protested that she needed the gun for self-protection on her job as the manager of a currency-exchange outlet. "I'm no Squeaky Fromme," the woman protested. "I'm a notary public and tax accountant...
...carrying a .45-cal. pistol was sighted on a catwalk in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium just an hour before President Ford was to speak there on Sept. 12. He eluded police. About four hours before Moore raised her gun outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, Benedict Silcio, a 27-year-old stevedore, was arrested in that city's Union Square park for threatening Ford. He had handed a note to a cashier in the St. Francis that proclaimed, "The mission: To gun down President Ford. Need to have a room for three people." Then he fled into the park...
...groups. If we had the slightest idea that we were being followed, we spent hours losing the tail by riding buses endlessly or dodging through big stores." For defense in case the police raided the cell, Grathwohl's foco was armed with two .38 revolvers, a .45 automatic pistol and a short-barreled shotgun...
...answers, "I was asked to call this number-the cops are coming." Seconds later, a man rushes out of the front door of the tenement. He sees the cops, but an officer beats him to the homemade grenade he is carrying and also snatches his pistol, a .38 revolver. He is Velez-with his once bushy Afro shaved. The police also arrest another man, wanted in the bank robberies. Four hours later, in Brooklyn, they find Car Owner Hernandez, real name Eco Avila. After Velez, 26, is booked on charges of double homicide, Lieutenant Yuknes says, "We've been...
...brush with death outside the St. Francis Hotel. "They played it slow, they played it fast, they paused," he complains. "You've seen that film a dozen times now." A number of newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively graphic attention that any future .45-cal. assassin would never make the same mistake. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid questions his network's decision to report on President Ford's bulletproof vest and thereby provide what he sees as valuable information to an assassin. Says Sevareid: "People...