Comparison Of Oscar Collazo And Torresola

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Oscar Collazo and Gruelio Torresola were two Puerto Ricans that had attempted to assassinate President Truman. They had arrived in Washington D.C. the day before the Bronx in New York City. The reason that they had decided to try to assassinate Truman was because they thought that it would draw more attention to Puerto Rico and advance the Puerto Rican independence. In the morning they had prepared for the assault. Torresola was a very skilled gunman, and had taught Collazo how to load and handle a gun. They had planned to shoot at the house from opposite directions and shoot their way in. Collazo and Torresola had a gun fight with some of the policemen that were in the white house at the time. They had wounded three policemen but had never