# Squeaky Fromme is a free woman! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426 "2009-08-14T17:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/1 "2009-08-14T17:42:45Z")
Charles Manson’s most infamous groupie has [made parole](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_re_us/us_manson_follower_ford): > [@](#): > > The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars, a prison official said. > > Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was just 26 years old when she pointed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unhurt. > > Fromme, now 60, left the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth at about 8 a.m. Friday, spokeswoman Dr. Maria Douglas said in a statement. Just thought I’d share that. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/2 "2009-08-14T17:45:27Z")
Just goes to validate the old saw, the squeaky weirdo gets the parole! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/3 "2009-08-14T18:38:32Z")
OK let’s start taking bets to see how long it’ll be before she mucks it up and lands back inside 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/4 "2009-08-14T18:48:58Z")
That article is a little misleading, isn’t it? It makes it sound like the only reason that Ford escaped with his life was that Ms. Fromme forgot that pistols work better with bullets. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/5 "2009-08-14T18:55:48Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > That article is a little misleading, isn’t it? It makes it sound like the only reason that Ford escaped with his life was that Ms. Fromme forgot that pistols work better with bullets. Or she believed it to be double action. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/6 "2009-08-14T18:56:33Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > That article is a little misleading, isn’t it? It makes it sound like the only reason that Ford escaped with his life was that Ms. Fromme forgot that pistols work better with bullets. It doesn’t say anything about bullets in the article. It just says that the SS guys grabbed her and she couldn’t kill him. ETA: Oops, it does. But it does talk about the role of the people who stopped her so why is it misleading? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/7 "2009-08-14T19:00:54Z")
However, the people she helped murder are still dead. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/8 "2009-08-14T19:02:35Z")
Wonder which NFL team will pick her up… ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/9 "2009-08-14T19:18:52Z")
I used to have a rat named Squeaky. She wasn’t named after a member of the Manson family, though. On the other hand, there’s my tiel, Sadie Mae… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/10 "2009-08-14T19:31:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wonder which NFL team will pick her up… I award two points to kayaker for best post in thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/11 "2009-08-14T19:32:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Or she believed it to be double action. 🙂 You can pull the trigger all you want on a double action semi-auto, but if there’s no round in the chamber, you’re not gonna get a boom. I wonder if “The Office” will pick up on this next season. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/12 "2009-08-14T19:33:29Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > However, the people she helped murder are still dead. Did she assist in that crime? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/13 "2009-08-14T19:36:29Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > You can pull the trigger all you want on a double action semi-auto, but if there’s no round in the chamber, you’re not gonna get a boom. Again I am the Poster Child for fighting ignorance. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/14 "2009-08-14T19:40:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did she assist in that crime? If you mean the Tate/LoBianco murders, she was not part of the group that broke into the estates and carried out the crimes, but I find it hard to believe that she did not know about it, given that she was living in a communal situation with the killers. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme) says she refused to testify against Charley, and tried to prevent other family members from testifying. She also seems to have been involved in another murder in Stockton, California - but eluded charges because she lucked out and wasn’t on the premises when police raided the compound. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/15 "2009-08-14T19:54:17Z")
Soon to star in a reality show on Lifetime! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/16 "2009-08-14T20:04:07Z")
:: still trying to get my head around the idea of someone named “Squeaky” :: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/17 "2009-08-14T20:19:06Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > …I find it hard to believe that she did not know about it, given that she was living in a communal situation with the killers. > > [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme) says she refused to testify against Charley, and tried to prevent other family members from testifying. She also seems to have been involved in another murder in Stockton, California… Good points. This is why I hate jury duty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-fromme-is-a-free-woman/506426/18 "2009-08-14T20:32:42Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: still trying to get my head around the idea of someone named “Squeaky” :: It isn’t the name her mama gave her when she was born, no.