American Gunfight: Plot to Kill Harry Truman by Stephen Hunter(.ePUB)+
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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman–and the Shoot-out that Stopped It by Stephen Hunter & John Bainbridge Jr.
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Overview: A fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event—the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, DC, that saved the president’s life.
It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House 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 demeanour, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man’s coat is a 9mm automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin’s glory.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime > History
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