Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, died on Wednesday at the age of 95, according to reports.

Moore died at a nursing facility in Franklin, Tennessee, according to the Nashville Banner . She moved to the area in 2022 after being released from prison in 2007. 4

On Sept. 22, 1975, the 45-year-old twice-divorced West Virginia native fired off two rounds at Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, according to The New York Times.

Moore missed the first shot with the .38 caliber pistol by just six inches — and was tackled during the second shot attempt by Marine Oliver Sipple. The second shot’s ricochet wounded a cab driver but Ford was uninjured.

“If I had had my .44, I would have caught him,” Moore told San Francisco cops after

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