Welfare Helped Ford Attacker
Monday, September 22nd, 1975
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 22 – Lynette A. Fromme, accused of attempting to assassinate President Ford, received $1,194.74 in welfare payments during a 13-month period ending in September 1974, officials say.
Sandra Good, Miss Fromme’s roommate and also a disciple of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, received $150.84 in welfare in July and August 1974, Richard Winsor, Sacramento County’s assistant welfare director. also said Wednesday.
He said that the reasons Miss Fromme, 26, and Miss Good, 30, stopped receiving the general assistance payments were confidential.
Miss Fromme is accused of pointing a semiautomatic pistol at Ford during a visit here Sept. 5. Authorities said there were four rounds in the magazine of the gun, but none in the firing chamber.
Manson is serving a life term at San Quentin Prison for the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.
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