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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It Paperback - 2007
by Hunter, Stephen
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This electrifying book is the first full account of the historical day fanatical suicide-martyrs attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola viewed themselves as soldiers participating in the violent campaign for an independent Puerto Rico.
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- Title American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It
- Author Hunter, Stephen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2007-02-06
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0743260694.G
- ISBN 9780743260695 / 0743260694
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.34 x 0.94 in (23.27 x 16.10 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: District of Columbia
- Locality: Washington, D.C.
- Library of Congress subjects Assassins, United States - Officials and employees
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
Summary
November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2:00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory.
First line
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican Nationalists named Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola pulled German automatic pistols and attempted to storm Blair House, at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., where the president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, was at that moment-2:20 P.M. on an abnormally hot Wednesday-taking a nap in his underwear.
