Sara Jane Moore
Sara Jane Moore | |
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Moore's mugshot following her arrest | |
| Born | Sara Jane Kahn February 15, 1930 |
| Occupation | Accountant |
| Criminal status | Paroled |
| Motive | Spark a violent revolution to change the United States |
| Convictions | Attempted assassination of the President of the United States (18 U.S.C. § 1751) |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
Sara Jane Moore (née Kahn; born February 15, 1930) is an American woman who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975. She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination and she was released from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years. Moore and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme are the only women who have attempted to assassinate an American president; both of their assassination attempts were on Gerald Ford and both of them took place in California within three weeks of one another.