Taking Aim at the President

"I do regret that I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos." - Sara Jane Moore Geri Spieler met would-be assasin Sara Jane Moore while she was in prison; Taking Aim at the President is based on 30-years of interviews. Spieler follows Moore's actions from her childhood in a small West Virginia town to her release from prison in December 2007. Moore's life was never conventional, and along the way she entered and dropped out of the military, was married five times, and was both a political radical and an FBI informant. Focusing on the complex psychology and motivations of a quintessentially desperate housewife and the only woman to ever fire a bullet at an American president, Spieler delivers a nuanced portrait of an elusive person and a fascinating glimpse back at a turbulent period in American history.