# Sara Jane Moore, Rest in... Something

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404 "2025-09-26T01:21:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/1 "2025-09-26T01:21:03Z")

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I don’t know if this thread should be in Politics & Elections. Mods, move if desired.

Anyway, Sara Jane Moore died this week at the age of 95. I can remember the day she took a couple of shots at President Ford in 1975. Hard to think of that as fifty years ago, but it was.

She was 45 at the time, a five times divorced mother of four. Not your average radical. Apparently, she became obsessed with the Patty Hearst saga which was big news at the time.

As for Gerald Ford, I consider him the last Republican president who was a genuinely decent human being.

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**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/2 "2025-09-26T01:26:11Z")

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Lynette’s getting old, too. Fromme, who also tried to shoot Ford.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/3 "2025-09-26T01:26:57Z")

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95? Egads.

I was a kid when those happened, and was as shocked as anyone else that these were done by women.

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**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/4 "2025-09-26T01:36:34Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> She was 45 at the time, a five times divorced mother of four. Not your average radical. Apparently, she became obsessed with the Patty Hearst saga which was big news at the time.

I’ve come to the conclusion that almost always when a lone person takes up violent political action they have very little in the way of coherent political beliefs.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/5 "2025-09-26T04:19:00Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> As for Gerald Ford, I consider him the last Republican president who was a genuinely decent human being.

Me too.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sara-jane-moore-rest-in-something/1023404/6 "2025-09-26T14:32:34Z")

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_It was a time of love and laughter,  
it wouldn’t come again,  
we had our round of joy but after,  
then began the pain_