Smile Jamaica Concert of the concert series. Stir It Up: The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government, an alternative historical novel by David Dusty Couples, weaves fact and fiction to dramatize the concert. The novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James dramatizes the attempt on Marley's life, including other events leading up to the Smile Jamaica concert. Smile Jamaica Concert The Smile Jamaica Concert was a concert held on December 5, 1976, at the National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley originally agreed to perform one song for the 80,000
Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento urged that Fromme's punishment be severe because she had shown herself to be "full of hate and violence". The trial ended on November 19, 1975, with Fromme being convicted of attempting to assassinate President Ford. Fromme received a life sentence. During her imprisonment, Fromme escaped from prison and, as a result, received extra time to her sentence after her capture two days later, on December 26, 1987. Betty Ford revealed in a 2004 interview on "Larry King Live" that following the attempt on her husband's life by Fromme, each time he left the White House she would pray for his