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TIL a man saved President Ford from assassination then had his life ruined as the media outed him as gay
Oliver Wellington "Billy" Sipple (November 20, 1941 – February 2, 1989) was a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran widely known for saving the life of US President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco on September 22, 1975.[1] The subsequent public revelation that Sipple was gay turned the news story into a cause célèbre for LGBT rights activists.
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