President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life. One by a young woman in Charles Manson’s gang, and the other just 17 days later by a far more unlikely candidate - an average looking middle-aged mother of five named Sara Jane Moore. In Taking Aim at the President, journalist Geri Spieler sketches the bizarre life of the only woman to ever fire a bullet at a U.S. president and her path to that fateful moment outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Joining us for this special event will be Tim Hettrich, one of the San Francisco police officers at the scene of the assassination attempt.

Geri Spieler is an investigative journalist and speaker. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Forbes. She has had a professional relationship with her subject, Sara Jane Moore, who she visited and interviewed in prison.