the woman identified by police as sara jane moore was immediately seized. >> sara jane moore jumped outed off a weapon and was tackled by another citizen. her background it turned out was as a sort of eccentric, kind of lower-rung political figure. she was kind of an odd duck. >> when gerald ford became president, within the space of one month were two attempts on his life, squeaky fromme and sara jane moore. both tried to shoot him. it's like, what's going on? why can't this be stopped? >> once again this nation has narrowly escaped the tragedy, the trauma of the assassination of our president. above all else, this points out the need for some additional measures, some additional precautions to protect the life of the highest elected official in the country. will it take another assassination in our lifetime to finally force some action? mony . mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy liv

i am skeptical about releasing someone who has committed an act like that, that goes for sara jane moore as well as john dingell he -- john hinckley. his -- he actually was not convicted in a sense, he was confined because he was judged to be insane. one of the aftermaths of this case was the federal insanity defense was changed. in most states, they made , so the insanity defense is not used as much anymore. very honest,o be can i point out one thing? that evening, late, about midnight after we were picking up the pieces in the washington field office, after we did a search of his room, we had to make two decisions, one of them was to choose a case agent. by that time, the agent in charge had come back, and we sat down and we gave a thought to who would be the case agent for this case. we chose a man who is here tonight, frank, he became the case agent. [laughter] -- [applause] court.the case through tom: what did he say? >> i said he did a great job. >> in the course of that, i kept my mouth shut. i said, this kid hinkley is crazy. and yet, the u.s. attorney's office and everybody else