22 Oct 1948 |
Lynette Alice Fromme born to Helen Benzinger Fromme and William Millar Fromme (an aeronautical engineer), Santa Monica CA. |
1963 |
Family moves to Redondo Beach, CA. |
1966 |
Graduates high school. |
1967 |
Meets Charles Manson at Venice Beach. |
Sep 1972 |
Arrested in connection with the murders of James and Reni Willet, for which she was not actually involved. |
2 Jan 1973 |
Charges against Fromme dropped in Willet case. |
5 Sep 1975 |
Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber. |
Nov 1975 |
Convicted of attempting to assassinate Ford. |
8 Mar 1979 |
Attacks fellow inmate Julienne Busic with a claw hammer, striking her on the head, at Women's Correctional Institute in Pleasantion CA. Busic, a Croatian nationalist, was in prison for hijacking a TWA airliner back in 1976. Fromme receives 15 additional months appended to her sentence for this attack. |
23 Dec 1987 |
Escapes from Alderson Federal Penitentiary, Alderson WV. |
25 Dec 1987 |
Reapprehended. |
5 Sep 2005 |
Tentative release date. |