Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American former member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. After serving 34 years in custody, she was released from prison on August 14, 2009.
Fromme was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of William Millar Fromme and Helen Benzinger. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mot...
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Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American former member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. After serving 34 years in custody, she was released from prison on August 14, 2009.
Fromme was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of William Millar Fromme and Helen Benzinger. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother a homemaker.
As a child, Fromme was a performer for a popular local dance group called the Westchester Lariats, which in the late 1950s began touring the U.S. and Europe, appearing on The Lawrence Welk Show and at the White House. Fromme was in the 1959 tour.
In 1963, the family moved to Redondo Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, in the South Bay, and Fromme began drinking and taking drugs. Her grades at Redondo Union High School dropped, but she managed to graduate in 1966. She moved out of her parents' house for a few months before her...
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