Jad Abumrad

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6,321 appearances 21 recordings 5 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radiolab · Oliver Sipple · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

Now she's just still standing there.

With my hand still in the air holding the gun.

Looking over the smoking barrel of the gun, and she's got enough time if she wants it, but...

Before she can take that second shot, the blonde man behind her lunges at her, grabs her gun arm, pulls it down, and deflects it for just that crucial second that these police officers nearby need to get to her.

They tackle her, they take her gun, and they pin her to the ground.

So I couldn't move.

And by that point, the Secret Service has whisked off the president into the limousine.

And I was immediately picked up and carried across the street.

Into the hotel.

Arrested.

And eventually she went to prison and she served 32 years in prison.

And then after that was released on parole.

And then we talked to her.

I'm not prepared to be told a first-person narrative from the perspective of someone who's about to assassinate the president.

That was not what I was expecting.

I was hoping that.

Wait, can you explain, though, why it is she decided to shoot the guy?

Yeah, why did she shoot?

Well, Sarah James never fully explained that.

And, in fact, when I asked her, she was like, I'm not going there.

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