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	GRISELIO TORRESOLA : Encyclopedia Entry
		Griselio Torresola (1925 – November 1, 1950) born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was one of two Puerto Rican Nationalists who attempted to assassinate United States President Harry Truman.
		Torresola was killed by a shot to the head from the mortally wounded Coffelt.
		Torresola, in a double handed, isosceles shooting stance, quickly pivoted from left to right around the opening of the booth, and fired four shots from his 9 mm German Luger, semi-automatic pistol at close range at Coffelt.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Griselio_Torresola (898 words)

	Griselio Torresola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Griselio Torresola (1925 – November 1, 1950) born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was one of two Puerto Rican Nationalists who attempted to assassinate United States President Harry Truman.
		Torresola was killed by a shot to the head from the mortally wounded Coffelt.
		Torresola aimed in and shot Birdzell in the left knee from a distance of approximately 40 feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Griselio_Torresola (910 words)

	American Gunfight
		Oscar and Griselio, on what they believed to be the last day -- the last hour, the last minutes of their lives -- got out of the cab at the corner of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue at about 2:12 p.m., a block to the east of Blair House.
		The unemployed Griselio, who had immigrated from Puerto Rico in 1948, was handsome and beloved by two women, two daughters and his family; Oscar, who had first come to America in the 1930s, was a family man with a reputation for self-control.
		Griselio had physical gifts and was quick and daring; Oscar was a sedentary fellow who loved best of all to settle in with a good encyclopedia after a long day shining handbag frames at a buffing wheel in a New York factory.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100401155_pf.html (3818 words)

	Truman Library - Assassination Attempt
		Two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman on November 1, 1950.
		Collazo and Torresola planned to approach the house from opposite directions and shoot their way inside.
		Torresola had inflicted all the other gunshot wounds on the three White House policemen.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /trivia/assassin.htm (394 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Oscar Collazo
		Torresola's sister had been wounded and his brother Elio was arrested.
		On November 1 1950, Collazo and Torresola with guns in hand attempted to enter the Blair House with the intention of assassinating the President, who was residing there while the White House was being renovated.
		Torresola was killed and Collazo was shot in the chest and arrested.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Oscar_Collazo (564 words)

	Ararat Shrine - Harry Truman
		On October 30, 1950, an attempt at a coup in San Juan, Puerto Rico, collapsed in a bloody barrage of shots in which Griselio’s sister was wounded and captured.
		Simultaneously, Griselio Torresola had been approaching from the west and arrived at the western guardhouse just as the first gunfire erupted.
		Griselio fired three rounds, hitting Coffelt in the chest, abdomen, and legs.
	www.araratshrine.com /history/truman (2963 words)

	Shoot-Out on Pennsylvania Avenue
		Twenty-five-year-old Griselio Torresola's radicalism was almost inbred, as his family had participated in every Puerto Rican revolution for a century.
		Torresola's sister was wounded, and his brother was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman.
		In New York, Collazo and Torresola were frustrated and angered by their inability either to assist in the coup or die for the cause.
	www.historynet.com /ah/bltrumanattempt (1093 words)

	Your American Backyard Forum — the outdoors bulletin board
		Torresola then went to where Collazo was lying on the sidewalk and fired another shot at Birdzell, hitting him.
		Torresola was still at street level and had not started up the steps to the front door.
		The authors also contend that Torresola could have seen the President from under the canopy, because, at 5 foot 5, he was short enough to see the President's window from beneath it.
	www.ambackforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=45345 (2551 words)

	Ban Handguns Now
		Each month's incidents will include details such as: the identity of the shooter; the number of people killed and wounded; the make, model, and caliber of the handgun(s) used in the shooting; the circumstances of the shooting; and, how the handgun was acquired.
		On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, tried to shoot their way into the Blair House to assassinate President Harry S. Truman.
		Truman was not harmed, but Torresola and a guard were shot and killed.
	www.banhandgunsnow.org /november.htm (507 words)

	Leslie William Coffelt, Private, United States Army, White House Police Officer
		Torresola's sister was wounded, and his brother was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman.
		In New York, Collazo and Torresola were frustrated and angered by their inability either to assist in the coup or die for the cause.
		If Collazo and Torresola had planned more carefully, they might have succeeded in their mission, as no president in modern times has been more vulnerable to attack than Truman was during his years at Blair House.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /lcoffelt.htm (3848 words)

	Drama at Blair House: the attempted assassination of Harry Truman American Handgunner - Find Articles
		Griselio Torresola had been armed with a Luger and Oscar Collazo with a Walther P38, both in 9mm, while the good guys had all been equipped with.38 Special Colt revolvers, 4" Official Police for the uniformed White House guards and 2" Detective Specials for the Secret Service.
		Griselio Torresola is armed with a Mauser-produced Luger in mint condition, and he knows how to use it.
		The muzzle is perhaps a foot and a half away from the uniformed officer.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BTT/is_180_30/ai_n16034729 (925 words)

	Powell's Books - American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It by Stephen Hunter
		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.
		At point-blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States.
		Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola viewed themselves as soldiers participating in the violent campaign for an independent Puerto Rico.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0743260686 (664 words)

	Pete The Elder: American Gunfight
		There was about a 38 second gun battle at the end of which one white house police officer named Leslie Coffelt was mortally wounded by Griselio Torresola.
		Before Coffelt died he was able to get off a shot that killed Torresola, who was the more skilled shooter of the two attempted assassins.
		If Coffelt had not killed Torresola and if Callazo's gun had not misfired in the very beginning of the fight (this misfire probably saved two officers' lives) Truman might have been killed.
	www.petetheelder.com /archives/2006/04/american_gunfig.html (497 words)

	Blair House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During much of the presidency of Harry Truman, it acted as the residence of the President of the United States, while the interior of the White House, which had been found to have serious structural faults, was completely gutted and rebuilt.
		On November 1, 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate Truman in the Blair House.
		During the attack, a policeman, Private Leslie Coffelt, was killed.
	www.muestrario.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bl/blair_house.html (131 words)

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		Policeman Les Coffelt and one of the gunmen, Torresola, were killed in the shootout.
		There are several stop-times in the account of the 38-second gunfight as the main players take over from time to time in other settings to shape the personal and historical context.
		Collazo and Torresola - "terrorists" by today's, and maybe any day's, standards - also become very human beings in "American Gunfight." Hunter does not pardon them for their assassination attempt and the death of a policeman trying to defend the president, but he sees them for what they were.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=TRUMAN-BOOKS-11-09-05&cat=EB (765 words)

	The Plot to Kill Truman
		The attempt on Truman’s life had been made by a pair of terrorists named Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola.
		They were close associates of the leader of the movement to make Puerto Rico independent, a man named Pedro Albizu Campos, who had been linked to violent incidents stretching back to the 1930s.
		Only a few days later, Collazo and Torresola had headed from New York to Washington, the latter carrying a letter from Campos instructing him that he must be prepared to take command of the nationalist movement abroad.
	www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/ah01.html (848 words)

	Blair House - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During much of the presidency of Harry Truman, it acted as the residence of the President of the United States, while the interior of the White House, which had been found to have serious structural faults, was completely gutted and rebuilt.
		On November 1, 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate Truman in the Blair House.
		During the attack, a policeman, Private Leslie Coffelt, was killed.
	www.indopedia.org /Blair_House.html (210 words)

	Issues : Assassination (www.newsaic.com)
		The most violent was the November 1, 1950 attack by two Puerto Rican nationalists on the Blair House, the President's official guest house where Harry S. Truman was staying while the White House was undergoing repairs.
		Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola stormed the Blair House and shot several members of the White House Police before being stopped (Truman was taking a nap at the time and was not injured).
		Torresola shot Private Leslie Coffelt of the White House Police, but Coffelt managed to kill Torresola with a single shot before succumbing himself; Coffelt died later that night.
	www.newsaic.com /mwassassin.html (1980 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--And the Shoot-Out That ...
		Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola viewed themselves as soldiers participating in the violent campaign for an independent Puerto Rico.
		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.
		At point-blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=54999653&srchTerms=0743260686&mediaType=-1&srchType=ISBN (557 words)

	The Imprisonment of Men and Women Fighting Colonialism 1950-PRESENT
		Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attack Blair House, in an attempt to assasinate U.S. President Truman.
		Torresola dies in the gunfire exchange with guards, Collazo is condemned to death.
		He is later pardoned by President Jimmy Carter and released from prison in 1979.
	www.prdream.com /patria/timelines/timeline1-1950.html (315 words)

	Truman Biography - Election As President
		One attacker was killed and the other wounded; one White House police officer was killed and two others were wounded.
		The would-be assassins, Griselio Torresola (who was killed) and Oscar Collazo, were Puerto Rican nationalists.
		Truman's seizure of the steel industry on April 8, 1952, sought to avoid a strike.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /whistlestop/qq/nl11.htm (331 words)

	A R G E N P R E S S . i n f o - Reciente versión yanqui del ataque a la Casa Blair - 7 / 4 / 2007
		El relato del extraordinario suceso histórico narrado con ribetes de novela, presenta a los protagonistas — a los de aquí y a los de allá — como los seres humanos que eran (o que son) y los ubica dentro de sus correspondientes contextos históricos.
		No obstante, los autores insisten una y otra vez en llamar “asesinos” a Oscar y a Griselio cuando pudieron haberlos denominado “luchadores por la libertad”.
		Este abogado con inclinaciones de fiscal vino a Puerto Rico cinco veces (Hunter una vez) y entrevistó a varias personas, algunas de ellas fuentes de primera mano en lo pertinente a Oscar y a Griselio.
	www.argenpress.info /nota.asp?num=026986 (773 words)

	Birmingham Post: On this day@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Staged by Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, this was an ambitious attempt to advance the struggle for independence in the South American country.
		The two gunmen approached from opposite directions with a view to shootingtheir way inside Blair House, the temporary presidential residence while repairs were being carried out at the White House.
		A practised gunman, Torresola had trained his novice companion but only one of Collazo's bullets hit their target.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:47867828&refid=holomed_1 (192 words)

	Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		November 1, 1950 - Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attack the Blair House, temporary residence of President Harry S. Truman.
		Torresola dies in the attack while Collazo is wounded and arrested.
		November 2, 1950 - After a two-day siege, the Police of Puerto Rico arrest Albizu Campos in his house in San Juan.
	www.pr-secretfiles.net /timeline.html?cat=15 (555 words)

	American Gunfight by Stephen Hunter, John Jr. Bainbridge, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0743260686
		On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, nearly assassinated President Harry Truman.
		Intending to attack the president at the White House, they only learned in passing from a cab driver that it was being renovated and that Truman was in fact living at the nearby Blair House.
		At his ensuing trial, Collazo was depicted as a crazed fanatic, but the authors argue that this simplified assessment unnecessarily dismisses a potential political conspiracy involving Puerto Rican nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was believed by some to have masterminded the plot in an effort to bring attention to his cause.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0743260686.html (1346 words)

	Amazon.com: American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It: Books: Stephen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The potboiler narrative may seem over the top at times, with its conjecture and imagined internal dialogue, but this comprehensive account succeeds in bringing this unlikely plot vividly to life.
		On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, engaged in a sustained gun battle with Secret Service agents at Blair House.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /American-Gunfight-Truman-Shoot-out-Stopped/dp/0743260686 (2609 words)

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