VIOLENCE: Fromme: 'There Is a Gun Pointed'

"I wasn't going to shoot him," complained the prisoner in solitary confinement. "I just wanted to get some attention for a new trial for Charlie and the girls." Why did she take such a potentially catastrophic action to make her point? "Well, you know, when people around you treat you like a child and pay no attention to the things you say, you have to do something."

Calmly, almost casually, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 26, last week discussed her reasons for aiming a loaded Colt .45 automatic at President Ford in Sacramento, Calif. She...

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