Squeaky Clean
Squeaky's wheel is going to get some grease.
Lynette Fromme---you might know her as "Squeaky"---will walk out of prison this week, a free woman.
Squeaky was one of the two women who tried to make Gerry Ford a dead president back in 1975, both within several weeks of each other, and both in California. Sara Jane Moore, who was released in January 2008, was the other scorned woman who tried to unleash her hellish fury on President Ford.
The difference? Moore actually got a shot off, while Squeaky just kind of flashed her gun; she had tampered with the weapon prior to showing up, ensuring that it couldn't fire.
No, I don't know why.
Squeaky was a Manson Girl, and that's not nearly as quaint as it sounds.
This is because "Manson" was Charlie Manson, and other than being evil personified, he was an OK guy, I guess.
In 1967, Fromme went to Venice Beach, Calif., suffering from depression. Manson, who had been recently released from federal prison, saw Squeaky and struck up a conversation. Fromme found Manson's philosophies and attitudes appealing, and the two became friends.
Fromme didn't take part in the infamously grisly Tate/La Bianca murders of 1969, but in the fall of 1972, she and some ex-convicts met up with a couple, James and Lauren Willett, at a cabin near Stockton, Calif. They forced James Willett to dig his own grave and gunned him down because he was going to tell the authorities about a series of robberies that the ex-convicts had committed after they were released from prison.
When they found Willett's body, his hand was still sticking out of the ground where he was buried.
Lauren Willett also turned up dead---killed to prevent her from talking about the killing of her husband. Squeaky was released due to a lack of evidence.
So Squeaky turned up in Sacramento in September 1975, withdrew a gun, and waved it as if she was going to gun down the president. Even though her attempt proved to be laughable and impossible to carry out, Fromme was given a life sentence, due to a 1965 law in the aftermath of JFK's killing that put all presidential assassination attempts in the same legal basket.
Moore's attempt came 17 days after Squeaky's bizarre instance.
Well, not really; Squeaky didn't even come with a loaded gun
Another sidebar: earlier in '75, Squeaky tried to get a few moments with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, believing that he was in jeopardy. She was sure something bad was going to happen to him. Squeaky said that the last time she had that feeling, she shortly thereafter saw someone shot to death before her very eyes.
Yet Squeaky is soon to be free, on parole.
She's going to be released this Sunday, the 16th.
As a child, Fromme was a performer for a popular local dance group called the Westchester Lariats. She even once appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show.
And-a-one, and-a-two, Squeaky's gonna be released, and it could be near you!
Lynette Fromme---you might know her as "Squeaky"---will walk out of prison this week, a free woman.
Squeaky was one of the two women who tried to make Gerry Ford a dead president back in 1975, both within several weeks of each other, and both in California. Sara Jane Moore, who was released in January 2008, was the other scorned woman who tried to unleash her hellish fury on President Ford.
The difference? Moore actually got a shot off, while Squeaky just kind of flashed her gun; she had tampered with the weapon prior to showing up, ensuring that it couldn't fire.
No, I don't know why.
Squeaky was a Manson Girl, and that's not nearly as quaint as it sounds.
This is because "Manson" was Charlie Manson, and other than being evil personified, he was an OK guy, I guess.
In 1967, Fromme went to Venice Beach, Calif., suffering from depression. Manson, who had been recently released from federal prison, saw Squeaky and struck up a conversation. Fromme found Manson's philosophies and attitudes appealing, and the two became friends.
Fromme didn't take part in the infamously grisly Tate/La Bianca murders of 1969, but in the fall of 1972, she and some ex-convicts met up with a couple, James and Lauren Willett, at a cabin near Stockton, Calif. They forced James Willett to dig his own grave and gunned him down because he was going to tell the authorities about a series of robberies that the ex-convicts had committed after they were released from prison.
When they found Willett's body, his hand was still sticking out of the ground where he was buried.
Lauren Willett also turned up dead---killed to prevent her from talking about the killing of her husband. Squeaky was released due to a lack of evidence.
So Squeaky turned up in Sacramento in September 1975, withdrew a gun, and waved it as if she was going to gun down the president. Even though her attempt proved to be laughable and impossible to carry out, Fromme was given a life sentence, due to a 1965 law in the aftermath of JFK's killing that put all presidential assassination attempts in the same legal basket.
Moore's attempt came 17 days after Squeaky's bizarre instance.
Well, not really; Squeaky didn't even come with a loaded gun
Another sidebar: earlier in '75, Squeaky tried to get a few moments with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, believing that he was in jeopardy. She was sure something bad was going to happen to him. Squeaky said that the last time she had that feeling, she shortly thereafter saw someone shot to death before her very eyes.
Yet Squeaky is soon to be free, on parole.
She's going to be released this Sunday, the 16th.
As a child, Fromme was a performer for a popular local dance group called the Westchester Lariats. She even once appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show.
And-a-one, and-a-two, Squeaky's gonna be released, and it could be near you!
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