Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is ushered into a police car after her attempted assassination of President Ford at Capitol Park in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas – The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

Fifty years ago, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme made local and national headlines for an assassination attempt on President Gerald R. Ford in Sacramento’s Capitol Park. Ford was on his way to meet then Gov.

Who of my generation can forget Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, the first woman to attempt to assassinate a U.S. president? Today, almost 40 years after Fromme donned a flowing red robe, strapped on a Colt ...

A Charles Manson disciple who tried to kill President Ford more than three decades ago is set to be sprung from prison next week. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, 60, leveled a .45-caliber handgun at the ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On December 23, 1987 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme escaped from the Alderson West Virginia Federal Prison for women. Fromme was serving a life sentence for trying to kill ...

She was one of Charles Manson’s earliest disciples, a waif-like flower child who rhapsodized about LSD and redwood trees, and one day in 1975 she brought a loaded gun to see the president. Lynette ...