SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23 – Sandra Good and Susan Murphy, former roommates of Lynette Fromme and members of the Charles Manson cult, asked that they be allowed to act as their own lawyers at their arraignment today on charges of conspiring […]
US Indicts Sandra Good Over ‘Death List’ Threats
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 22 – Sandra Good, roommate of Lynette Fromme and an original follower of Charles Manson, was indicted today for conspiracy to mail threatening letters in connection with her so-called “death list” of environmental polluters. Miss Good, 31, was […]
Fromme Maintains She Didn’t Want to Kill Ford
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20 — Lynette Fromme wrote her trial judge that she knew her gun could not be fired when she pointed it at President Ford, Fromme’s roommate says. Sandra Good said Fromme wrote U.S. District Court Judge Thomas MacBride […]
Fromme Case Threat Alerts City Schools
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20 – Sacramento city schools were alerted yesterday afternoon after police received a telephone call threatening violence against school children unless Lynette Fromme was granted a new trial. Deputy Supt. Fred Stewart said, “We alerted all the schools, […]
Fromme Receives Life Sentence
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18 — Charles Manson disciple Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, convicted of attempting to assassinate President Ford, was sentenced Wednesday to life imprisonment. U.S. Dist. Judge Thomas J. MacBride told the 27-year-old follower of convicted mass murder Manson he was […]
Fromme Gets Life Sentence For Ford Assassination Try
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, convicted of trying to kill President Ford, was sentenced to life in prison today after several hysterical courtroom outbursts in which she hit a U.S. attorney in the face and demanded that Charles […]
Fromme Trial Bill: $55,000
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 2 – All the bills are not in, but federal court officials estimate the cost of Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s trial will exceed $55,000. However, a major item of expense — the cost of a flight to Washington, D.C. […]
Fromme Tried To Kill President, Jury Rules
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 27 – Lynette Fromme, disciple of convicted mass slayer Charles Manson and self-proclaimed environmentalist, stood convicted today as the first woman ever to attempt the assassination of a president of the United States. A jury of eight women […]
Fromme Attorneys Wind It Up
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 24 – The prosecution and defense presented their final arguments in the attempted presidential assassination trial of Lynette Fromme today after the Charles Manson cultist refused to testify on her own behalf. U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes, pulling the […]
Manson’s Prison ‘Guru’ Testifies That Fromme Asked Him For Guns
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 11 – An ex-convict described as Charles Manson’s prison guru testified today Lynette Fromme asked him for help in getting guns two months before her alleged assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford. Lanier Ramer, who refused to testify […]
Agent Tells How He Captured Fromme
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 8 — Lynette Fromme, banished from her trial for demanding that mass murderer Charles Manson be allowed to testify, was described Friday as yelling in disbelief after an alleged attempt to kill President Ford. Over defense objections, Secret […]
Manson Girl Freed, Father is Blamed
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 — Ruth Ann Morehouse, a former Manson girl, was freed by a judge who blamed her father for abandoning her to the weird gang when she was only 14. Miss Morehouse, now 23, appeared Tuesday for […]
Ford Will Videotape Testimony on Fromme Incident
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — President Ford will give his videotaped testimony this morning on what he saw and heard when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme allegedly threatened him with a loaded gun in Sacramento, Calif. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford has […]
Lynette Fromme Plans Subpoena For President Ford
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20 – Lynette Fromme will seek to subpoena President Ford as a witness in her federal court trial on a charge she attempted to murder Ford when he visited Sacramento Sept. 5. Miss Fromme’s motion to subpoena the […]
US Judge Bans Pretrial Showing Of Manson Film
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 17 – U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride has banned the Northern California showing of a film depicting the exploits of mass slayer Charles Manson and his cult until a jury is sequestered or returns a verdict […]
Manson Girl Tells of Quitting ‘Family’
Says She Didn’t Appear for Sentencing Because of Pregnancy LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 – Ruth Ann Morehouse, still wearing a bandage over plastic surgery she underwent to remove the forehead “X” that had marked her as a member of the […]
Supervisors on ‘Death List’ of Manson Family
CHICO, Oct. 13 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notified the Butte County Board of Supervisors Friday that they were included on a “death list” reportedly compiled by the women of the Manson Family. The FBI in Sacramento said […]
What Makes A Revolutionary?
Oct. 10 – Patricia Hearst. Lynn Fromme. Sara Jane Moore. Names of three women, the names of three real women written about in the newspapers so that everybody who reads one knows who they are. Or do we — really? […]
Manson Follower Is Arrested In Capital
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 9 – Sacramento police yesterday arrested Charles Manson follower Ruth Ann Morehouse, 22, on a number of charges, including burglary and conspiracy to commit murder. Miss Morehouse, known to the Manson followers as “Ouisch,” was arrested at an […]
Fromme Requests Lawyer’s Firing
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 7 – Lynette Alice Fromme today asked a federal judge to allow her to fire her court-appointed attorney in her trial on a charge she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The 26-year-old Charles Manson cultist told U.S. […]
