#093 - She Harvey Oswald, Part Six, Side B

#093 - She Harvey Oswald, Part Six, Side B

From Fourth Reich Archaeology by Fourth Reich Archaeology

April 24, 2026 · 1h 17m

About this episode

The episode concludes the story of Squeaky Fromme and her attempt on President Gerald R. Ford's life, exploring her trial and its implications.

It’s the end of the line for Squeaky, as this week we wrap up our tale on the first of the two would-be assassins who, in September 1975, pointed their pistols at President Gerald R. Ford. In this episode we pick things up on the morning of September 5, 1975, just moments after Squeaky is taken into custody for making an attempt on our boy Jerry’s life. We begin the tale on the eve of Ford’s visit to Sacramento from Squeaky’s point of view. Squeaky was, to say the least, frustrated with how things were going. Charles Manson’s newfangled quasi-religion known as ATWA (Air Trees Water & Animals), of which Squeaky and her Sac-town roommate Sandy Good were the prime exponents, was falling flat. Prison authorities were blocking Manson from receiving visitors or making public statements. And the media don’t seem to care about Squeaky and Sandy’s “International People’s Court of Retribution,” the threatening letters they were sending to corporate executives of polluting industries, or the environmental destruction being wrought in the Nixon/Ford era. We then turn to the event itself, Lyn’s arrest and pretrial phase, and the cast of characters in the drama that was her trial. It was…

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Host: Fourth Reich Archaeology

Topics covered

  • assassination attempts
  • Squeaky Fromme
  • Charles Manson
  • trial spectacle
  • political history
  • propaganda

Keywords

  • Squeaky Fromme
  • Gerald Ford
  • Charles Manson
  • trial
  • September 1975
  • assassination
  • propaganda
  • environmental activism

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