“I’m Sorry I Missed”
Third of a three-part series is about the woman who attempted to assassinate the president of the United States. Part 3.
In creating my approach to research Sara Jane, I began with my secondary research. I looked up everything that was written about her and her assassination attempt.
There was a lot about her when she shot at Ford, but very little about her life and her growing up in West Virginia. What I did find was not at all accurate. Partly because Sara Jane invented her early life, such as being the child of an oil magnate.
Others the press interviewed, never even knew her, but to get their names in the paper they fabricated her early life, this time saying she was born into poverty and she knew Charles Manson. None of that was true as well.
So, I took down names and created an approach to contact them about what they knew about Sara Jane.
She did not like that I was doing research about the book without her direct and detailed involvement. I told her that since it had been increasingly difficult to visit and speak with her, I had figured I might move forward more rapidly by interviewing people she knew.
She proceeded to tell me exactly how this project was going to be done: she would approve my…
