Larry Buendorf, the Secret Service agent who thwarted an attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1975, seizing a loaded handgun from Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and wrestling her to the ground outside the California Capitol,

Ron Nessen, the veteran broadcast journalist who served as press secretary for President Gerald Ford, has died at 90.

By grabbing a loaded handgun from Squeaky Fromme in 1975, Mr. Buendorf, as part of a Secret Service detail, thwarted a would-be assassin in California’s capital.