Sara Jane Moore, a onetime FBI informant who tried and failed to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, died Sept. 24, two days after the shooting’s 50th anniversary. She was 95.

Her death, at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, was confirmed by her friend Demetria Kalodimos, a journalist who first reported Ms. Moore’s death in an article for the Nashville Banner. Information on the cause was not immediately available.

Ms. Moore’s release from federal prison in California in 2007 after more than 32 years behind bars climaxed a dramatic and wayward life. She was variously described by those who knew her as charming and abrasive, impulsive and brooding, and intermittently depressed and suicidal.

She was a troubled ideological drifter, a suburban Republican matron, who in the politi

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