‘Suburban Fury’ Review: A Riveting but Searching Documentary Portrait of a Would-Be Presidential Assassin
17 days following Charles Manson cultist Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s unsuccessful attempt on President Gerald Ford’s life, I, a seemingly ordinary suburban mother, mirrored her actions. I waited outside the downtown San Francisco hotel where Ford was staying, and in the midst of curious spectators, I discharged my firearm. Just like Fromme, I too failed, and my tale became part of the peculiar events in history – an oddity that seems almost unbelievable, forever etched as one of those extraordinary facts.