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On September 22, 1975, 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore took a revolver out of her purse and fired two shots at President Ger | dG1fNENGbVFJbXRQelk
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00:00I'm not going to tell you that.
00:08No, I'm not. I'm sorry. I'm not going to tell you my codename or my number.
00:14I gave my word, and I don't care if it's 50 years. I gave my word.
00:23I'm feeling good about a day.
00:26After a decade of tension, the people and their president are back together again.
00:36My God, there's been a shot. There's been a shot.
00:40Sarah Moore, the suspect, she is to be arraigned.
00:42We expect momentarily on charges of attempting to murder the president.
00:47There were also reports from San Francisco today that Mrs. Moore was working as a government informer
00:52just 24 hours before she fired up the president.
00:55Sarah Jane Moore has told the Los Angeles Times,
00:58I did not want to kill somebody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.
01:04I was aiming for a headshot.
01:13At a certain point, when you begin to accept that you're probably not going to live,
01:20when that finally sinks in, it actually becomes a kind of freedom.
01:25She is a nice, quiet, 40-year-old, middle-class, white divorcee with a small child,
01:33leading a nice, quiet, middle-class life.
01:35And that left the most disturbing question of all.
01:38How did she convert to terrorism?
01:41Do you consider yourself a dangerous woman?
01:43I hope so.
01:44Do you consider yourself a danger?
01:59Do you consider myself a dangerous womanOL?
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