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LYNETTE "SQUEAKY" FROMME
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From the Associated Press, March 13, 1979:
Wire Report
SAN FRANCISCO#&151;The FBI is investigating a woman prisoner's complaint that she was attacked with a claw hammer by fellew inmate Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the would be assasain of former President Gerald Ford, agents said Tuesday.
FBI special agent Roy Mckinnon said Ms. Fromme, 30, could be charged with crime on a government reservation in connection with the alleged assault Thuraday at the Women's Correctional Institute in Pleasantion, about 35 mil sast of San Francisco. Other published reports said authorities were planning to charge Ms. Fromme with assault with intent to commit murder or manslaughter, onarges carrying a maximum three year sentence.
The victim, Julienne Busic, allegedly was struck on the head with th claw of a hammer Ms. Fromme was using while working in a garden at the women's prison. Mckinnon said several other inmates were in the vicinity.
Ms. Busic is a Croatian convicted of murder in connection with a terrorist bombing at La Guardia Airport in New York City in 1976. She was hospitalised overnight, but is now back in her cell in good condition, officials said.
Ms. Fromme has been isolated since the incident.
A follower of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, Ms. Fromme was convicted of trying to assassinate President Ford as he walked through Sacramento's Capitol Park in September 1975. She was wrestled to the ground after pointing a semi-automatic pistol at Ford.
Officials said the prison incident may have been prompted by a "verbal exchange" between the two womn earlier in the week.
Ms. Fromme could be eligible for parole in 1986, although a conviction on any hew charges could delay that.
She was tranafered to Pleasanton last summer from a women's prison in West Virginia where prison officials said she was a model inmate.
CORRECTION-DATE: March 15, 1979
CORRECTION:
The Associated Press erroneously reported earlier this week that Julienne Busic was convicted of murder in connection with a terrorist bombing at La Guardia Airport in New York City in 1975
Ms. Busic was convicted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, May 5, 1977, of air piracy and air piracy involving a death in connection with the Sept. 10, 1976, hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jetliner.
She was sentenced to a mandactory life sentence. Killed during the incident was a police officer who died when a bomb, connected with the hijacking, exploded while officers attempted to defus it.
The bombing at La Guardia Airport, which killed 11 persons, occurred on Dec. 30, 1975.
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