Second Time, Farce 
Such was Gerry Ford’s fate that even his bumbling would-be assassins were viewed as indicative of the Administration’s general air of haplessness.
Churchill wrote of the thrill of being fired upon without result. Ford was twice lucky. Two would be slay-gals went gunning for him, and only managed to get off one [bad] shot between them.
Errant shooter Sara Jane Moore had the requisite triple name, but lacked the accuracy America had come to expect from lone, crazed assassins.
Like the better class of killer, Moore had an FBI connection, informing the Bureau on the San Francisco Bay area radical milieu in the wake of the psychotic Symbionese Liberation Army actions of the mid 70s . 
No patsy claim though – she owned up to it all. And now she is out.
We’ll always have Carter comutee and Clinton pardonee Patty Hearst 
to kick around though.
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Return to Yesteryear 
Freed from the burdens of Front Runnership, John McCain has the time to let his mind run free, dreaming of his likely never-to-be Presidency.
Engaging in the one-on-one interaction so prized by New Hampshire voters, Mccain gave a tour of his most admired Presidents.
The Boston Globe managed to feign surprise that Harry Truman made the list. And not for the glories of the early Cold War, firing MacArthur or integrating the Army.
McCain’s Truman fixation was on the little man strolling about with a single bodyguard.
“”He could walk out of the White House and take a walk with one Secret Service agent. One Secret Service agent!…My, how times have changed.””
Indeed. In 1951.
Truman’s temporary home at Blair House was attacked by Puerto Rican Nationalists. A policeman and one of the Nationalists died. 
Congress responded by formalizing the Secret Service’s protective role, and enumerating who would be covered.
Thirteen Months Wear & Tear…Or Something More Ominous?
The Washington Post reports on a new theory for various oddities in Lincoln’s appearance and his maladies: he was a walking dead man.
Doctor John G. Sotos has written a book theorising that Lincoln suffered from an extremely rare genetic syndrome know as MEN 2B, which likely would have killed him with cancer.
In the course of discussing whether DNA testing of his genetic material would answer Lincoln’s medical mysteries the Post provides a handy guide to the relics of Father Abraham.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed in Washington has a skull fragments, hair and bloody clothing. 
Ford’s Theatre has bloody clothing, pillows and towels.
And The Chicago History Museum 
has Lincoln’s death bed with mattress and bloody bottom sheet.
Death Bed: Room for Abe & Pals Version 
Time Traveled in Vain? 
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Further emanations from the ghost of Gerald Ford. Or rather his publisher.
Hard to tell what exactly though. “FlatSigned Press“ re-published the Warren Commission report two years ago with some later ad-ons from Ford. BULLETIN: OSWALD DID IT! It came in several versions, including the leather bound with a ribbon marker edition. For extra swank and to keep one foot in the conspiracy camp, you could order the boxed $889 version, containing “artifacts from the Oak Tree and White Picket Fence from the “Grassy Knoll!” ” 
Classy!
Then in April this year they published still another edition, retitled 
“A Presidential Legacy and The Warren commission.” And lord only knows what’s in this one.
The breathless and way incoherent press release tries to hint at everything, then wanders off into dead ends.
“This week is the first ever anniversary since the passing of all members of the Warren Commission. The book, “A Presidential Legacy and The Warren Commission,” provides a new look into the mind of a former president in his final years and is the only source for Ford’s final written words in book format on the subject of the John F. Kennedy assassination, 9-11 and other major events of American history leading up to his death just months ago in December of 2006…A major retailer had negotiated for an exclusive offering of the hand- signed version of this book but later backed out fearing negative ramifications. So the American people heard this news because they heard it here.”
And more:
.” President Ford specifically and by name, debunked Oliver Stone’s theories and his movie and for the first time anywhere, gave us great information about how his brief administration and key figures he appointed then, still determine policy for the American people.”
How exactly did good old Gerry Ford fall in with these shysters?
Deal-y Plaza
All manner of Kennedy odds and ends are coming to market in time for Thursday’s 40th anniversary of the assassination.
The latest up: a Polaroid taken by Mary Ann Moorman,
showing Kennedy’s car in the midst of the shooting, with the grassy knoll visible in the background.
[here she is third from the left, taking the picture] 
The picture had been at the 6th Floor museum in Dallas, and has figured in all manner of theories about the assassination. Blown up fragments of the photo have been mined for images that could possibly be a shooter or shooters – hence a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Some science supports the multiple gunmen thesis.
An attempt to sell the photo in April seems to have not worked out. Perhaps anniversary mojo will carry them over the top this time.
Errant shooter Sara Jane Moore had the requisite triple name, but lacked the accuracy America had come to expect from lone, crazed assassins.
