Awakened from an afternoon nap November 1, 1950, Brother Harry S. Truman, watched as two Puerto Rican nationalists stormed his residence in an attempt to assassinate him. A DC policeman, Leslie W. Coffelt, and one of the perpetrators, Griselio Torresola, died in the failed attempt. The other would-be assassin, Oscar Collazo was wounded in the melee and captured. A court convicted Collazo and sentenced him to death. President Truman, however commuted his sentence to life in prison and in 1979, President Jimmy Carter further reduced Collazo's sentence to time served, and he was freed. That year, Fidel Castro decorated Collazo as a hero. The guns used in the assassination attempt are on display at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.
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