Oliver Sipple

Uncommon card · No. 174566

Oliver Wellington "Billy" Sipple (November 20, 1941 – c. January 1989) was an American man known for intervening to foil an assassination attempt against U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975. A decorated U.S. Marine and disabled Vietnam War veteran, he grappled with Sara Jane Moore as she fired a pistol at Ford in San Francisco, causing her to miss.