Former president Gerald Ford died almost exactly a year ago today, which makes it that much more notable that Sara Jane Moore, one of his two would-be assassins, was released from prison on parole this morning, after serving 32 years of a life imprisonment sentence. As we discussed last year, Sara Jane Moore, a disgraced SLA member, attempted to kill Gerald Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel on Sept. 22, 1978. As she prepared......

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With the death of Gerald Ford has come renewed interest in the various events in his life, including (for SFist's purposes, anyways) Sara Jane Moore's attempt to assassinate him in San Francisco on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel. It was 17 days after Squeaky Fromme the Manson follower had tried and failed to kill Ford in Sacramento, and Moore was a mentally unstable leftist active with the Symbionese Liberation Army (the ones......

Friend of SFist Jason Schultz forwarded us a press release [PDF]. What do you get when you cross labor activism and theater nerds? Hilarity! Saint Francis, beloved patron saint of small animals and birds, and supporter of the oppressed in all communities, has descended from heaven to protest the unfair labor policies of the St. Francis Hotel. "I don’t want to raise a fuss, but these guys are using my name," explained the holy......