This Day In History

Sep 5 1921
Undiscovered actress Virginia Rappe somehow ruptures her bladder during actor-comedian Fatty Arbuckle's party at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Three days later, the feverish woman is checked into a maternity hospital, where she dies from peritonitis. Arbuckle is eventually tried for murder, but acquitted.

Sep 5 1949
A former sharpshooter in World War II, pharmacy student Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger. He later tells a reporter "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind. I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."
Now he is America's first single-episode mass murderer.



Sep 5 1975
Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber.

Sep 5 1990
In his testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, LAPD chief Daryl Gates opines: "Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."


Sep 5 1991
Disgraced children's television star Pee-wee Herman returns to the public eye for the first time after his masturbation arrest, appearing on the MTV Video Music Awards. He opens with the line: "Heard any good jokes lately?"


Sep 5 2003
One Disneyland guest is killed and 10 others injured when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster jumps the tracks in Frontierland.

Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme to settle in Marcy

CNYCentral- Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme has no obvious ties to Central New York: she was born and spent her life before prison in California, but the federal prison system has notified Oneida County that she will be settling in Marcy, a mostly rural town east of Rome.

Oneida County Undersheriff M. Peter Paravati says the paperwork says no extra security will be needed for her, and State Police also tell Action News that they have no plans for extra security for the now-60 year old woman who's done 34 years in prison for pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford back in 1975.

Undersheriff Paravati says because Ford is dead, the perceived threat is lessened. Fromme will, however, have to report her whereabouts to federal prison authorities.
Many Marcy area residents we spoke with were ok with her becoming a neighbor. "If she served her time," George Herder told us, "either put her back in prison or leave her alone."

Fromme was a follower of cult muderer Charles Manson, though she was never charged with his killing sprees. As for why she's moving here, Undersheriff Paravati says he has no idea, but 'Marcy is a nice place to live.'

'Squeaky' Fromme Released From Prison

(CNN) -- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was released from federal custody Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said.

Fromme was convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.

She was released Friday morning from Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, said Felicia Ponce, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in Washington.