The State - News from Aug. 22, 1985

Sara Jane Moore, the former bookkeeper and California housewife who attempted to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, was denied release by the federal Parole Commission. Moore, 55, is serving a life sentence at a federal women’s prison in Pleasanton. A spokeswoman said the commission continued Moore’s request for parole until May, in the year 2000, the most severe decision it could make under the law. “I feel a little bit of shock, because I thought I had fulfilled, you know, the conditions for parole, and I had served more than the Parole Commission’s own rules,” Moore said, adding that she would appeal the ruling.