The Nation - News from June 5, 1988

Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, a Charles Manson follower serving a life term for trying to kill then-President Gerald R. Ford, has been transferred from a West Virginia prison where she escaped last year to one in Kentucky with better security, authorities said. Fromme, 39, was moved to Lexington Federal Correctional Institution. She was sentenced on May 25 to an additional 15 months in prison for escaping from the all-female Alderson prison for two days last December. Fromme was the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She was arrested after she aimed a pistol at Ford on Sept. 5, 1975, in Sacramento. A Secret Service agent grabbed her, and Ford was not hurt.