The Nation - News from Aug. 26, 1988

Presidential assailant Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme has been transferred from a high-security unit at the Lexington, Ky., federal correctional prison to a similar unit in Florida, federal prison spokesmen said. Fromme, who is serving a life sentence after attempting to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in Sacramento in 1975, was transferred last Friday along with four other women to the correctional prison in Marianna, Fla., after the high-security unit in Lexington was shut down, said Jim Schluter, a spokesman at the Lexington prison. Fromme was a member of murderer Charles Manson’s “family.”