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Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Jul 2024 14:06 pm Hello, TV news anchors and reporters??? All of this coverage of the Butler PA shooting shows reporters in the newsrooms across America need a history lesson.

Everyone refers to John Hinckley's*** attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Reagan and his press aide James Brady were both very seriously wounded.

But no one, to my experience the last two weeks, has mentioned President Gerald Ford, who experienced TWO assassination attempts only 17 days apart in 1975, both times in California.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Manson family nutcase, in Sacramento pulled the trigger on a .38 at point-blank range, but the gun jammed.

Just 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore, seeing Ford exiting the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, opened fire from 40 feet away. Fortunately, she was bumped by Oliver Sipple, a 32 year old ex-Marine, knocking the bullet off-course. Sadly for Sipple, San Francisco gossip maven Herb Caen outed the secretly gay Sipple in his widely-read newspaper column, greatly upsetting Sipple and his family.

*** Oddly, just two weeks before Reagan was shot, ABC's "Greatest American Hero" series started airing weekly in Season One (of four), starring William Katt as a superhero character named Ralph Hinkley. Following the Reagan shooting, subsequent episodes named Katt's character "Mr. H." Even if you never saw the show, you've heard its Lite FM theme song by Joey Scarbury: "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free; flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be?...".

Chances are you have NOT heard of John Hinckley's released single from 2023, "We Have Got That Chemistry", on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0cgiCn5FoU8OB4pjbKgltq

Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Jul 2024 14:06 pm Hello, TV news anchors and reporters??? All of this coverage of the Butler PA shooting shows reporters in the newsrooms across America need a history lesson.

Everyone refers to John Hinckley's*** attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Reagan and his press aide James Brady were both very seriously wounded.

But no one, to my experience the last two weeks, has mentioned President Gerald Ford, who experienced TWO assassination attempts only 17 days apart in 1975, both times in California.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Manson family nutcase, in Sacramento pulled the trigger on a .38 at point-blank range, but the gun jammed.

Just 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore, seeing Ford exiting the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, opened fire from 40 feet away. Fortunately, she was bumped by Oliver Sipple, a 32 year old ex-Marine, knocking the bullet off-course. Sadly for Sipple, San Francisco gossip maven Herb Caen outed the secretly gay Sipple in his widely-read newspaper column, greatly upsetting Sipple and his family.

*** Oddly, just two weeks before Reagan was shot, ABC's "Greatest American Hero" series started airing weekly in Season One (of four), starring William Katt as a superhero character named Ralph Hinkley. Following the Reagan shooting, subsequent episodes named Katt's character "Mr. H." Even if you never saw the show, you've heard its Lite FM theme song by Joey Scarbury: "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free; flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be?...".

Chances are you have NOT heard of John Hinckley's released single from 2023, "We Have Got That Chemistry", on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0cgiCn5FoU8OB4pjbKgltq

Heavy Early wrote: ↑19 Jul 2024 14:39 pm

Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Jul 2024 14:06 pm Hello, TV news anchors and reporters??? All of this coverage of the Butler PA shooting shows reporters in the newsrooms across America need a history lesson.

Everyone refers to John Hinckley's*** attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Reagan and his press aide James Brady were both very seriously wounded.

But no one, to my experience the last two weeks, has mentioned President Gerald Ford, who experienced TWO assassination attempts only 17 days apart in 1975, both times in California.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Manson family nutcase, in Sacramento pulled the trigger on a .38 at point-blank range, but the gun jammed.

Just 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore, seeing Ford exiting the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, opened fire from 40 feet away. Fortunately, she was bumped by Oliver Sipple, a 32 year old ex-Marine, knocking the bullet off-course. Sadly for Sipple, San Francisco gossip maven Herb Caen outed the secretly gay Sipple in his widely-read newspaper column, greatly upsetting Sipple and his family.

*** Oddly, just two weeks before Reagan was shot, ABC's "Greatest American Hero" series started airing weekly in Season One (of four), starring William Katt as a superhero character named Ralph Hinkley. Following the Reagan shooting, subsequent episodes named Katt's character "Mr. H." Even if you never saw the show, you've heard its Lite FM theme song by Joey Scarbury: "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free; flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be?...".

Chances are you have NOT heard of John Hinckley's released single from 2023, "We Have Got That Chemistry", on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0cgiCn5FoU8OB4pjbKgltq

Do you think print reporters are any better? Other than a few old-timers, do you think any of the reporters at the Post knew about the Ford attempts? I'm not convinced most knew Reagan got shot.

May 5, 1979: Raymond Lee Harvey was an Ohio-born unemployed American drifter. He was arrested by the Secret Service after being found carrying a starter pistol with blank rounds, ten minutes before Carter was to give a speech at the Civic Center Mall in Los Angeles on May 5, 1979. Harvey had a history of mental illness,[92] but police had to investigate his claim that he was part of a four-man operation to assassinate the president.[93] According to Harvey, he fired seven blank rounds from the starter pistol on the hotel roof on the night of May 4 to test how much noise it would make. He claimed to have been with one of the plotters that night, whom he knew as "Julio". (This man was later identified as a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, who gave the name Osvaldo Espinoza Ortiz.)[92] At the time of his arrest, Harvey had eight spent rounds in his pocket, as well as 70 unspent blank rounds for the gun.[94] Harvey was jailed on a $50,000 bond, given his transient status, and Ortiz was alternately reported as being held on a $100,000 bond as a material witness[92] or held on a $50,000 bond being charged with burglary from a car.[94] Charges against the pair were ultimately dismissed for a lack of evidence.[95]