Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who threatened to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975, is free today.
A would-be presidential assassin is released from prison - and not everyone is happy about the news.
Ivor Davis, author of the new book, Five to Die: The Book That Helped Convict Manson, says he's stunned that there's not more anger or uproar over the fact that this troubled woman is going free.
Davis says that when Charles Manson and his acolytes were being tried in Los Angeles for the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others, Fromme sat outside the courthouse waiting for a jury to set Manson free.
Manson was convicted of the gruesome killings in 1971, and Davis recalls that Squeaky, angered by Davis' first book exposing Manson, screamed at him:
"Do you know what it feels like to have a seven inch knife down your throat?"
Fromme, now 60, also threatened the lives of others including top lawyers who worked to convict Manson during the 1970 trial. Davis notes that in U.S. criminal history, no one who has ever tried to kill a U.S. president has ever been released from jail.
In addition, Davis adds:
"She was convicted in 1975 and a few years later she escaped from prison when she heard Manson was ill. She was recaptured two days later. Her allegiance is to this convicted murderer who has never shown an ounce of remorse."
Fromme has been held in a Carswell Federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. There is little chance that John Hinckley, who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, will ever be paroled.
Manson and his convicted acolytes, serving life terms in California prisons, have been repeatedly denied parole.
For those interested, I've read and highly recommend Five To Die, which catalogs the bizarre story of life and death with Charles Manson and those who were involved with the Tate-LaBianca murders 40 years ago. The book has been updated and republished by Thor Publishing and can be found at http://www.MansonBook.com.
I recently finished The Shadow Over Santa Susana, another book written on the Manson Family, and while it was an okay read, it was filled with so many typo's that I became frustrated and distracted. On the other hand, I'm currently reading, Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme, and honestly, it's 430 pages of all kinds of excellent.
Also recently on tap was the video Six Degrees of Helter Skelter, the third film project from Tenacity Entertainment and Scott Michaels (E!'s 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders, Hollywood's Dearly Departed Tours and FindADeath.com). The documentary was really well done, but I enjoyed the DVD Extra's a little bit more since Michaels managed to showcase a few things we normally don't have a chance to see, like Squeaky's little girl hand prints displayed forever in concrete in front of her childhood home.
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter - OFFICIAL TRAILER from Mike Dorsey on Vimeo.
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