Donald Trump assassination attempt: Just when it seemed that the US presidential race could not become any more chaotic, Republican candidate Donald Trump experienced his second assassination attempt, marking this year's election the most violent and turbulent in American history and shining the spotlight on the country's gun control system and the capabilities of the US intelligence services. However, apart …
Lynette Fromme sits in a U.S. marshal’s car in Sacramento after her attempt to assassinate President Ford. In September 1975, President Ford escaped two assassination attempts, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco. Sept. 5, 1975 | Sacramento Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was 26 when she pointed a pistol at Ford in Sacramento. Then, …
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. Secret Service agents handcuff Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme after she pointed a gun at President Ford during a 1975 visit to the State Capitol. “At one point she …
Today in history: On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer. In 1944, the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command rescinded orders to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II; over 110,000 men, …
Today in history: On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; five of the militants, a German police officer and all nine hostages were killed in the following 24 hours. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print In 1905, the …
