President Gerald R. Ford’s would-be-assassin Sara Jane Moore died Wednesday, Sept. 24. She was 95.

Demetria Kalodimos first reported Moore’s death in the Nashville Banner. She died in a nursing home in Franklin, Tenn., two days after the shooting’s 50th anniversary. The Banner report did not immediately reveal the cause of her death.

Ford, a Grand Rapids native, became the first unelected U.S. president in 1974 after Richard Nixon resigned amid the Watergate Scandal.

Moore, a far-left activist and one-time FBI informant, fired a single shot at Ford on Sept. 22, 1975 in front of the San Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The shot missed, however, and she was quickly subdued by Marine veteran Oliver Sipple.

Authorities later determined the .38 caliber handgun she used had a faulty sight

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