When Remembering Sixth Grade…
By Mitch Berg
…the other day, I tried to place some world events during the year.
The Mayaguez incident, of course; the fallout of Watergate; the fall of Saigon, of course…
…and Squeaky Fromme’s attempt on Gerald Ford.
And, blow me down, but Frommeis finally out of the joint:
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was a 26-year-old disciple of the cult murderer Manson when she aimed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unhurFromme, now 60, is scheduled to be released on parole from the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth on Aug. 16, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the court-appointed attorney who represented her at trial.
Fromme, who got a life term, became the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on U.S. presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Any dibs on being her counselor?
Rumors of her imminent appointment as the Obama Administration’s Mental Health Czar are, at this juncture, unconfirmed.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Maybe Sara Jane Moore and Sarah Jane Olson can come over and celebrate her release with a Bundt cake or something.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:16 am
I was thinking maybe a nice fern…
August 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I was thinking maybe a nice fern…
That would be good. With one of those macrame hanging plant deals.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Mr. D Says:
August 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am
That would be good. With one of those macrame hanging plant deals.
Nah, they’ll all be rocking the macrame bikini tops! /shudder
August 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
A minor point – bikini tops (bottoms for that matter) are crocheted, knit, or other fiber arts, anything but macrame. Macrame would be just painful; in this instance, for the wearer AND the innocent bystanding spectator.