00:00:00
Speaker 1: Hi, Ephemeral listeners, anyone's still out there. This is not a new episode of Ephemeral. It's the trailer for a new podcast called rip Current, created and hosted by r pal Toby Ball, whom you might recall from our episode UFOs. There's a lot here Ephemeral fans might like a strange story, almost forgotten to time, told through expert interviews and rare archival tape. It's got a great soundtrack and a wonderful co host and actress, Mary Catherine Garrison. Plus I worked on at a bunch, including designing this trailer. Hope you like it. Rip Current Episode one is available today wherever podcasts are found.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: This summer, a lone gunman on a rooftop reminded us that American presidents have long been the targets of assassins. Nearly fifty years ago, President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. September fifth, nineteen seventy five, Sacramento, California. In a crowd outside the Capitol Building, a woman pulls a gun on President Ford.
00:01:14
Speaker 3: President Gerald R.
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: Today, a woman dressed in a long red skirt pointed a forty five caliber pistol at.
00:01:23
Speaker 3: The President, and I saw a woman start to go down and her arm go back, and I saw the gun. September twenty second, San Francisco, on the steps of the Saint Francis Hotel, another woman tries to kill the president.
00:01:39
Speaker 2: A woman fired a shot at President Ford in San Francisco this afternoon.
00:01:43
Speaker 1: She was right at the front of the robe and forty feet away. When he walked out.
00:01:48
Speaker 2: President waved of the crowds and they had cheered him, and that's when it happened. I yelled the she's got a gun. In two hundred and fifty years of US history, these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a sitting president.
00:02:05
Speaker 3: The two events were separated by seventeen days, in less than ninety miles, and the two assassins had never met.
00:02:13
Speaker 2: One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. She is twenty six year old Lynette Alice from nickname Squeaky.
00:02:22
Speaker 3: I always felt like Glynnette was kind of his right hand woman, a kind.
00:02:26
Speaker 2: Of with her good curson, A very good person. Can I read the other? A middle aged housewife, an aspiring radical working undercover for the FBI in the violent revolutionary Underground, identified by police Sarah Jane Moore in her forties.
00:02:44
Speaker 3: Because she didn't look like a radical, she could enter into these areas that other people couldn't.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: A spy. Basically, I was the person in the intent was exactly as I stated in court to wealthily and null any assassinator on off Hours some of the United States.
00:03:04
Speaker 3: This season on the podcast Rip Current, we ask why these women? She was a gentle client.
00:03:12
Speaker 1: I thought, he's loving girl.
00:03:14
Speaker 3: Why did they want to kill President Ford? Being the appointee of President Nixon, It's understandable to me that in their minds he should also be the object of their hatred. And why this time, this place.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: One does not have to condone everything in hate Ashbury to know that it exists.
00:03:32
Speaker 2: Back then, there were lots of communes, there were lots of guru varieties.
00:03:37
Speaker 3: Manson told his followers that this would be a blood bath in the streets of every American city.
00:03:41
Speaker 2: What starts as a hippie love called transmographied into a violent criminal enterprise.
00:03:47
Speaker 3: Five persons, including actress Sharon Tape were found dead.
00:03:51
Speaker 1: We realize that we're dealing with very violent underground groups or corporate enemies of the people.
00:03:57
Speaker 2: Will be shot on private at any time, any play.
00:04:01
Speaker 3: The goals were anarchy.
00:04:03
Speaker 1: Out of anarchy, the revolutionary groups would get their power.
00:04:07
Speaker 3: The bloodiest and most massive gun battle in the history of Los Angeles.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: Random violence, political violence.
00:04:13
Speaker 3: There was just no let up. That's to the fact that insect the praise to find the life of the people.
00:04:19
Speaker 1: These people aren't just a bunch of nuts. They're perfectly willing to die for what they're doing.
00:04:26
Speaker 2: Someplace else that would have been like a big deal, but not in California. The story of one strange and violent summer this season on Rip Current.
00:04:38
Speaker 3: Listen to Rip Current September fifth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Speaker 1: Hi, Ephemeral listeners, anyone's still out there. This is not a new episode of Ephemeral. It's the trailer for a new podcast called rip Current, created and hosted by r pal Toby Ball, whom you might recall from our episode UFOs. There's a lot here Ephemeral fans might like a strange story, almost forgotten to time, told through expert interviews and rare archival tape. It's got a great soundtrack and a wonderful co host and actress, Mary Catherine Garrison. Plus I worked on at a bunch, including designing this trailer. Hope you like it. Rip Current Episode one is available today wherever podcasts are found.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: This summer, a lone gunman on a rooftop reminded us that American presidents have long been the targets of assassins. Nearly fifty years ago, President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. September fifth, nineteen seventy five, Sacramento, California. In a crowd outside the Capitol Building, a woman pulls a gun on President Ford.
00:01:14
Speaker 3: President Gerald R.
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: Today, a woman dressed in a long red skirt pointed a forty five caliber pistol at.
00:01:23
Speaker 3: The President, and I saw a woman start to go down and her arm go back, and I saw the gun. September twenty second, San Francisco, on the steps of the Saint Francis Hotel, another woman tries to kill the president.
00:01:39
Speaker 2: A woman fired a shot at President Ford in San Francisco this afternoon.
00:01:43
Speaker 1: She was right at the front of the robe and forty feet away. When he walked out.
00:01:48
Speaker 2: President waved of the crowds and they had cheered him, and that's when it happened. I yelled the she's got a gun. In two hundred and fifty years of US history, these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a sitting president.
00:02:05
Speaker 3: The two events were separated by seventeen days, in less than ninety miles, and the two assassins had never met.
00:02:13
Speaker 2: One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. She is twenty six year old Lynette Alice from nickname Squeaky.
00:02:22
Speaker 3: I always felt like Glynnette was kind of his right hand woman, a kind.
00:02:26
Speaker 2: Of with her good curson, A very good person. Can I read the other? A middle aged housewife, an aspiring radical working undercover for the FBI in the violent revolutionary Underground, identified by police Sarah Jane Moore in her forties.
00:02:44
Speaker 3: Because she didn't look like a radical, she could enter into these areas that other people couldn't.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: A spy. Basically, I was the person in the intent was exactly as I stated in court to wealthily and null any assassinator on off Hours some of the United States.
00:03:04
Speaker 3: This season on the podcast Rip Current, we ask why these women? She was a gentle client.
00:03:12
Speaker 1: I thought, he's loving girl.
00:03:14
Speaker 3: Why did they want to kill President Ford? Being the appointee of President Nixon, It's understandable to me that in their minds he should also be the object of their hatred. And why this time, this place.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: One does not have to condone everything in hate Ashbury to know that it exists.
00:03:32
Speaker 2: Back then, there were lots of communes, there were lots of guru varieties.
00:03:37
Speaker 3: Manson told his followers that this would be a blood bath in the streets of every American city.
00:03:41
Speaker 2: What starts as a hippie love called transmographied into a violent criminal enterprise.
00:03:47
Speaker 3: Five persons, including actress Sharon Tape were found dead.
00:03:51
Speaker 1: We realize that we're dealing with very violent underground groups or corporate enemies of the people.
00:03:57
Speaker 2: Will be shot on private at any time, any play.
00:04:01
Speaker 3: The goals were anarchy.
00:04:03
Speaker 1: Out of anarchy, the revolutionary groups would get their power.
00:04:07
Speaker 3: The bloodiest and most massive gun battle in the history of Los Angeles.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: Random violence, political violence.
00:04:13
Speaker 3: There was just no let up. That's to the fact that insect the praise to find the life of the people.
00:04:19
Speaker 1: These people aren't just a bunch of nuts. They're perfectly willing to die for what they're doing.
00:04:26
Speaker 2: Someplace else that would have been like a big deal, but not in California. The story of one strange and violent summer this season on Rip Current.
00:04:38
Speaker 3: Listen to Rip Current September fifth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
