In September 1975, two California women each tried unsuccessfully to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The podcast Rip Current examines both women's stories, plus the radical politics of a counterculture whose desperate last gasps informed their worldviews.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a 26-year-old Charles Manson disciple, tried to shoot Ford in Sacramento, but her gun misfired. Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old housewife who had gotten in too deep with radicals, fired at Ford in San Francisco 17 days later, but a bystander deflected the shot. The podcast recounts each woman's history and the confluence of events that led them each to attempt to murder a sitting president.
