WI: Squeaky Fromme Acquitted

in 1975, Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme was convicted of the attempted assassination of then President Gerald Ford. Her defense argued that she was not trying to kill the president but was simply just pointing a gun at him. what if the jury had agreed with the defense? How would the country react?
 
Maybe a Playboy spread? Though I think Larry Flynt and Hustler might be the better candidates to handle that combustible a public figure.
 
in 1975, Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme was convicted of the attempted assassination of then President Gerald Ford. Her defense argued that she was not trying to kill the president but was simply just pointing a gun at him. what if the jury had agreed with the defense? How would the country react?


The country would consider the jury to be made up of the biggest fools on the planet and the laughingstock of the country considering that lame defensive argument is the best they could come up with! What was she pointing a gun at him for? The laughs? A burning desire to land up in prison? An elaborate form of suicide?
 

Tovarich

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The country would consider the jury to be made up of the biggest fools on the planet and the laughingstock of the country considering that lame defensive argument is the best they could come up with! What was she pointing a gun at him for? The laughs? A burning desire to land up in prison? An elaborate form of suicide?
Because that's her 2nd Amendment Right, nobody else's business!
What are you, some kind of Commie? :p
 
Maybe a Playboy spread? Though I think Larry Flynt and Hustler might be the better candidates to handle that combustible a public figure.

Time published a photo of Fromme and another of Manson's groupies topless, one that they had sent to him in prison. From what I remember, neither were really Playboy-worthy...
 

Lateknight

Banned
They pull the same sort of stunt they pulled with them officers that beat Rodney King they charge her again on some similar charge she tried to kill the president she's going to jail.
 
Maybe a Playboy spread? Though I think Larry Flynt and Hustler might be the better candidates to handle that combustible a public figure.

She wasn't particularly intriguing going in, although I suppose a top flight makeup artist, costume designer (to use the term loosely), and photographer could have transformed her. Now, that's if she were to appear in Playboy. Make that Hustler and instead of major league talent working on the makeover it's double A / high single A talent at best.

Here's a link to photos, etc. of the subject going in:
https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=855&q=squeaky+fromme&oq=squea&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.2224.3743.0.5550.5.4.0.1.1.0.137.521.0j4.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.5.528._wX1CO_2r5k#imgrc=_
 
The country would consider the jury to be made up of the biggest fools on the planet and the laughingstock of the country considering that lame defensive argument is the best they could come up with! What was she pointing a gun at him for? The laughs? A burning desire to land up in prison? An elaborate form of suicide?
plus, there might be some discussion of the social psychology phenomenon of 'polar shift.' That a group decision can sometimes end up at one or another extreme. (risk-adverse or risk-accepting is what I've heard, but there might be other extremes it can end up at)
 

CalBear

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Shake their head at the idiots in California? Immediate investigation of the Hetch Hetchy water supply to see exactly how much LSD had been dumped into the reservoir?

Especially since they took her with the weapon STILL IN HER hand and complaining that the gun didn't go off in front of a slew of witnesses.

This was a case that even the OJ defense team couldn't have won.
 
Frome's trial ended in November 1975. Sara Jane Moore, the other woman who tried to assassinate Ford, plead guilty the next month. She eventually served 32 years and got out in 2007.

So if Frome walks, Moore gets the whole library thrown at her, not just a few books. She is still in prison today, screaming insanely at anyone who dares to mention Chevy Chase.
 

TinyTartar

Banned
Time published a photo of Fromme and another of Manson's groupies topless, one that they had sent to him in prison. From what I remember, neither were really Playboy-worthy...

You say that, but I bet you that a Joan Rivers Playboy published in the last couple of years would be a big attraction. Same with Sarah Jessica Parker. Ugliness can arouse the interest of the morbidly curious.
 
You say that, but I bet you that a Joan Rivers Playboy published in the last couple of years would be a big attraction. Same with Sarah Jessica Parker. Ugliness can arouse the interest of the morbidly curious.

And Squeaky in the 70s would still be much closer to the conventional idea of female attractiveness that mainstream "men's magazines" pander to.

(Full disclosure: Squeaky is my "type")
 
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