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The gay man who saved Ford's life.(Oliver Sipple)(Gerald Ford)(Essay)

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

| July 01, 2009 | Luzer, Daniel | COPYRIGHT 2009 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore tried to kill Gerald Ford. It was not Ford's life that changed that day; he would go on, only a few minutes off schedule, back to Washington. It was the man standing next to Moore, Oliver Sipple, an overweight, 33-year-old gay man, who would be changed forever by the assassination attempt.

Three thousand people milled around San Francisco's Union Square for hours waiting for Ford to exit a meeting of the World Economic Council. That morning, Sipple didn't even know the President was coming to town. Sipple was unemployed and in the habit of taking long walks around San Francisco. A Vietnam veteran and a former Marine, he had ...

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