Sara Jane Moore has finally said she's sorry, said Shelby Grad in the Los Angeles Times. After serving 32 years in prison for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, Moore appeared on the Today show Thursday and told Matt Lauer, “I think that I was misled, that I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error.” (watch Sara Jane Moore on the Today show)
But it wasn’t until she spent “time in solitary confinement,” said Gerald DeMarco in the TodayShow.com, “that the only woman ever to fire a shot at a president” realized that she had been used by the San Francisco counterculture groups that she was involved with. “Now aged 80, the matronly looking Moore hopes to write a book about her life.”
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