Oliver Sipple from Radiolab Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Oliver Sipple, a 33-year-old former Marine, tells how he struck the gun just as it was fired in the direction of President Ford as he left a downtown hotel in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975. ( ASSOCIATED PRESS / AP Images )