Freed Would-Be Ford Assassin: 'It Was Wrong'

The woman who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 says she was “misled” and “mistaken” to do so. “I really thought that it would trigger a new revolution,” Sara Jane Moore told NBC today after serving 32 years in prison. “I think I made a serious error. I had to learn later that everyone else didn't feel that way.”

“One gets tired of being thought of as a kook, a monster, an alien. I’m a human being,” adds Moore, now 80 and planning to write a book. The suburban-mom-turned-leftist-activist is the only woman to have ever fired at a president. She shot at and missed Ford’s head during a San Francisco motorcade before being wrestled to the ground by a bystander. (More Sara Jane Moore stories.)