US President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin dies at age 95

Sara Jane Moore fired two shots at the Republican president during his visit to San Francisco in 1975.

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Moore, who was sentenced to life in prison but was freed on parole in her final years, was 95.

Her attack came just days after Ford, a Republican, was targeted in an unrelated murder plot by associates of cult leader Charles Manson.

Ford was not injured in Moore's attack, which she said was intended to spark an American revolution. Her death comes amid renewed attention to presidential security following two attempts on President Donald Trump's life.

On 22 September, 1975, Moore fired a .38-caliber revolver she had purchased hours earlier at Ford, but missed.