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Sara Jane Moore, who shot US President Gerald Ford in an assassination attempt outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975, has died, according to US media.
Moore, who was sentenced to life in prison but paroled in the final years of her life, was 95 years old.
Her attack came just days after Ford, a Republican, was targeted in an assassination plot by associates of cult leader Charles Manson.
Ford was not injured in Moore's attack. The attack was intended to spark an American revolution. Her death comes amid renewed attention to presidential security following two attempts on President Donald Trump's life.
On September 22, 1975, Moore shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver, which he had purchased a few hours before the assassination.
A former US Marine standing next to her in the crowd of about 3,000 people overpowered her, forcing her to miss the second shot.
She had been arrested the day before after a security officer saw her with a gun in a crowd gathered for Ford. That gun was confiscated, forcing her to buy another one.
The California mother of four pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. She served 32 years in prison before being released on parole.
Her attack on Ford came just 17 days after Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme pointed a gun at the then-president but did not fire before being arrested.
Moore's death came just days after the 50th anniversary of her attempt.
In a 2009 interview with NBC News, Moore said he was radicalized by the social unrest of the 1960s and 1970s.
"It was a time that people don't remember. You know, we had a war… The Vietnam War, you got involved, I got involved. We were saying the country had to change," she said on NBC's Today show.
"The only way it was going to change was a violent revolution. I really thought [Ford's assassination] could spark that new revolution in this country."
Investigators found no links to revolutionary groups and found him legally sane.
On Tuesday, Ryan Routh was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course in September of last year.
He will be sentenced on December 18 and faces life in prison.
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