Bob Marley assassination attempt at National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley & The Wailers agreed to headline the peace concert. Bob Marley claimed to not be involved in Jamaican politics and had originally agreed to play one song at the concert on the condition that the concert wasn’t political. However, after Manley moved the elections up to within ten days of the concert, those loyal to both parties considered Marley’s “Smile Jamaica” song and concert to be an endorsement for the PNP. At 830 pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, seven men with guns raided Marley’s house
Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento assassination attempt, Ford continued to walk to the California state house, where he met with California governor Jerry Brown. For her crime, Fromme spent 34 years in prison and was released on August 14, 2009 – two years and seven months after Ford's death. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, later received the M1911 pistol used in the assassination attempt as a gift, and the gun was put on display. Lynette Fromme, who was nicknamed "Squeaky" by George Spahn, was a follower of cultist Charles Manson, leader of the group convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate