Did you know of the attempt to kill George W. Bush? Or that Reagan had a “cat stalker”? Read on…
Via NY Post:
On Nov. 1, 1950, with the White House undergoing renovations, President Harry Truman was napping upstairs at Blair House, the guest house across the street.
At 2:15 p.m., as he slept, “two Puerto Rican nationalists, 37-year-old Oscar Collazo and 24-year-old Griselio Torresola, approached Blair House from opposite directions . . . Collazo was armed with a Walther P-38 and Torresola with a Luger, both 9 mm pistols.”
Torresola, approaching from the west, noticed White House police officer Leslie Coffelt and shot him three times. Collazo, from the east, approached the front door and shot Officer Donald T. Birdzell in the leg.
Awakened by the shooting, Truman looked out the window and saw one of the officers lying wounded on the street. He stuck his head out to ask who had been hit, but a Secret Service agent yelled at him to get back inside.