Hey, this is Toby. Thanks for listening to Strange Arrivals. I want to tell you about my new podcast. It's not about UFOs or anything paranormal. It's about a mostly forgotten episode in American history. It's called Rip Current. Here's the trailer. I hope you like it. This summer, a lone gunman on a rooftop reminded us that American presidents have long been the targets of assassins. Nearly fifty years ago, President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in
less than three weeks. September fifth, nineteen seventy five, Sacramento, California. In a crowd outside the Capitol Building, a woman pulls a gun on President Ford.
President Gerald R.
Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin. Today, a woman dressed in a long red skirt a forty five caliber pistol at the President. And I saw a woman start to go down and her arm go back, and I saw the gun.
September twenty second, San Francisco, on the steps of the Saint Francis Hotel, another woman tries to kill the president.
Woman fired a shot at President Ford in San Francisco this afternoon. She was right at the front of the robe and forty feet away.
When he walked out.
President waved to the crowds, and they had cheered him, and that's when it happened. I yelled the she's got a gun. In two hundred and fifty years of US history, these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a sitting president.
The two events were separated by seventeen days, in less than ninety miles, and the two assassins had never met.
One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. She is twenty six year old Lynette Alas from nicknames Squeaking.
I always felt like Glynnette was kind of his right hand woman, a.
Good pertain a very good person. The other a middle aged housewife, an aspiring radical rookie undercover for the FBI in the violent Revolutionary Underground, identified by police Sarah Jane Moore in her courties. Because she didn't look like a radical, she could enter into.
These areas that other people couldn't.
A spy. Basically, I was the person in the intent was exactly as I stated in court to walthiy and know any assassinate Gerald offer the pression of the United States.
This season on the podcast Rip Current, we ask why these women? She was a gentle quiet I thought he's loving girl. Why did they want to kill President Ford being.
The appointee of President Nixon. It's understandable to me that in their minds is also be the object of their hatred.
And why this time this place. One does not have to condone everything in hate Ashbury to know that it exists.
Back then, there were lots of communes, there were lots of guru varieties.
Manson told his followers that this would be a blood bath in the streets of every American city.
What starts as a hippie love called transmographied into a violent criminal enterprise. Five persons, including actress Sharon Tape, were found dead.
And realize that we're dealing with very violent underground groups, our corporate enemies, so that people will be shut on at any.
Time and at any play.
The goals were anarchy, a lot of anarchy. The revolutionary groups would get their power the bloodiest and most massive gun battle in the history of Los Angeles.
Random violence, political violence.
There was just no let up. As to the fascist insect, the praise upon the life of the people.
These people aren't just a bunch of Look, they're perfectly willing to die for what they're doing. Someplace else that would have been like a big deal, but not in California. The story of one strange and violent summer this season on Rip Current.
Listen to Rip Current September fifth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.