Keywords: United States presidential daily diary, Ford, 19750905 partial.png U S President Gerald Ford cropped September 5 1975 - 8 52 a m to 10 30 a m Location Sacramento California <br><br>The Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento was a September 5 1975 effort by cultist Charles Manson Family member Lynette Squeaky Fromme to kill U S President Gerald Ford in California Ford was in Sacramento that morning to speak at an annual California Host Breakfast The above file is pages from Ford's Daily Diary shows that Ford spoke for 26 minutes at the Host Breakfast and returned to the Senator Hotel He left the Senator Hotel at 10 02 am and walked to the California State Capitol arriving at 10 06 am Between that time the diary notes with little detail that Fromme tried to assassinate Ford Ford himself waited until the end of his meeting with the California Governor to mention that someone had jus tried to kill him The scant text in the September 5 1975 Daily Diary of President Gerald R Ford about the assassination attempt seems to reflect that nonchalant approach by the Ford administration to the assassination attempt 1975-09-05 Gerald R Ford Presidential Library Citation White House September 5 1975 Daily Diary of President Gerald R Ford September 5 1975 President's Daily Diary Collection Box 77 at the Gerald R Ford Presidential Library 12 http //www fordlibrarymuseum gov/library/document/0036/pdd750905 pdf November 27 2012 The White House PD-USGov Institution Institution Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum Gerald R Ford Presidential Library and Museum-cooperation PD-USGov 1975 works in the United States Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento Diary Scanned English texts United States presidential daily diary Ford 1975-09 Documents at the Gerald R Ford Presidential Library and Museum |