Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of domestic terrorist Charles Manson and who tried to assassinate former President Gerald Ford, has been released from prison after spending more than 30 years behind bars. She was reportedly released from a Texas prison hospital this morning.
Fromme, now 60, was just 26 years old when she pointed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Fromme first became eligible for parole in 1985 but did not seek release.
Fromme was sentenced to life in prison and 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. President Ford was walking to the California State Capitol from his hotel when Fromme pushed through the crowd, Fromme drew the pistol from a holster on her thigh and pointed it at the president as he shook hands with well-wishers.
Charles Manson is serving a life term in San Quentin in California for the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and eight others. Fromme, one of his "family" of followers, was not implicated in those attacks.
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