Plaza
Union Square
Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA
Palm-lined plaza and shopping hub where a Civil War-era rally ground now hosts department stores and a soaring victory monument.
This guide to Union Square in San Francisco returns to September 22, 1975, when Sara Jane Moore stood about forty feet from President Gerald Ford as he stepped out of the St. Francis Hotel after a speech. It follows Moore's strange days beforehand, including a police stop that let her go and a different revolver bought that same morning, and the ordinary crowd gathered in the square to watch the president wave. Beside her stood Oliver Sipple, a former Marine, watching the same crowd.
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