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The Manson follower who tried to assassinate a president — and the man who stopped her
She was one of Charles Manson’s earliest disciples, a waif-like flower child who rhapsodized about LSD and redwood trees, and one day in 1975 she brought a loaded gun to see the president. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, 26, had been living in a $100-a-month …