Remembering Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme as a Threat

Aug. 14, 2009 - PRLog -- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who threatened to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975 is free today -- a would-be presidential assassin is released from prison -- and not everyone is happy about the news.

Ivor Davis, author of the new book "Five to Die: The Book That Helped Convict Manson - http://www.MansonBook.com - says "I'm stunned that there's not more anger or uproar over the fact that this troubled woman is going free."

Davis says that when Charles Manson and his acolytes were being tried in Los Angeles for the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others, Fromme sat outside the courthouse waiting for a jury to set Manson free.  

Manson was convicted of the gruesome killings in l971 and Davis recalls that Squeaky, angered by Davis' first book exposing Manson screamed at him, "Do you know what it feels like to have a seven inch knife down your throat."

Fromme, now 60, also threatened the lives of others including top lawyers who worked to convict Manson during the l970 trial. "Squeaky was a deranged woman 40 years ago and then she went on to try to kill President Ford," Davis says. He notes  that in U.S. criminal history no one who has ever tried to kill a U.S. president has ever been released from jail.

In addition, he adds, "She was convicted in l975 and a few years later she escaped from prison when she heard Manson was ill. She was recaptured two days later. Her allegiance is to this convicted murderer who has never shown an ounce of remorse."

Fromme has been held in a Carswell Federal prison in Fort Worth Texas. There is little chance that John Hinckley, who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, will ever be paroled.

Manson and his convicted acolytes, serving life terms in California prisons have been repeatedly denied parole.

The Manson book, Five To Die, which catalogues the bizarre story of life and death with Charles Manson and those involved with the Tate-LaBianca murders 40 years ago, has been updated and republished by Thor Publishing and found at http://www.MansonBook.com for purchase.