2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Associated Press Wire Photo, 8” x 7-1/2”, November 2, 1950, showing the Blair House with insets showing the path of each gunman, Torresola who was killed, and Collazzo, who was wounded. Also shows where the President was, third floor. Truman witnessed the entire failed attempt. The reverse has the newspaper clipping showing the a portion of the image/ On November 1, 1950, Puerto Rican pro-independence activists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at the Blair House during the renovation of the White House. Both men were stopped before gaining entry to the house. Torresola mortally wounded White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt, who killed him in return fire. Secret Service agents wounded Collazo. Truman was upstairs in the house and not harmed. Collazo was found guilty on all counts by a jury on March 7, 1951 and sentenced to death. President Truman commuted Collazo's sentence to life in prison in 1952, and President Jimmy Carter commuted it to time served in 1979.
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