American Gunfight
Subtitle: The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780743260695
Subjects: United States - General; Assassination; U.S. President; Political Science; History - U.S.; History: American; General; United States - 20th Century/50s; History / United States / General; History; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: 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.