"President Resting: Awakened by Shots"
Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate President Truman
Newspaper article
By: Anthony Leviero
Date: November 2, 1950
Source: "President resting: Awakened by Shots, He Sees Battle in Which Three are Wounded", as published in the New York Times.
About the Author: Anthony Leviero, a reporter for the New York Times, won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1952.
INTRODUCTION
In order to protest American control over Puerto Rico, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to assassinate United States President Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) on November 1, 1950, at Blair House in Washington, D.C. Both men belonged to the Puerto Rican...
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