HOUSEWIFE TO WOULD-BE ASSASSIN

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office. One by a young woman in Charles Manson’s gang, Squeaky, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average looking middle-aged mother of five. Journalist Geri Spieler traces Sara Jane Moore’s path to that fateful moment. Born in a small West Virginia town to strict parents, Moore showed an early love of theater that would translate into her adult tendency to obscure her identity and mislead those around her. Skilled at deception, she was married to five times including twice to an U.S. Air Force Captain, a respected doctor, and to an Academy Award-winning sound designer. Along the way she abandoned her children, faked amnesia, worked as an FBI informant, and won the trust of William Randolph Hearst. Sara Jane Moore met all the major players and was present at all of news worthy events of California in the 1960s and 70s. As such, her story presents a vivid snapshot of those turbulent years.

 Spieler knew Moore’s psyche personally and gleaned fascinating insights from almost three decades of private interviews conducted in prison and correspondence, from January 1976 to June 2003. A combination of these exclusive stories and rigorous independent research, Housewife Assassin is the bizarrely compelling, never-before-told story of this elusive character—the only woman to ever fire a bullet at a U.S. president.