I went into “Suburban Fury,” a documentary about Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in 1975 (she failed, due mostly to a faulty gun), not knowing much about her and never having given a lot of thought, frankly, to that particular freak spasm of 1970s violence. (There were a lot of them, like the Patty Hearst kidnapping, which is intimately linked to Moore’s story.) Moore, at the time, seemed the unlikeliest of assassins — a 45-year-old single mother who looked like she could have been played by Maureen Stapleton. The question that hangs over any shooting like this one is “Why?” (Assuming you think
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