Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police smashed a hole in the door of Campos' apartment when he refused to let them in and were immediately fired upon through the opening. Reportedly, over 100 bullets were exchanged in the ensuing fight, Campos and his four companions firing through the shuttered windows on each side of the apartment...
...thank you." I had been collecting my things from the desk sergeant. Having signed the receipt, I headed for the door...
...Swem Elgin, the doorkeeper, the three people at the door−two dark young men and an attractive woman−were just three more visitors to be admitted to the half-filled spectators' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives. Timidly, they asked if they might go into the Ladies' Gallery and watch the Congressmen at work. "You got any cameras?" asked Elgin. The three said they had not. He motioned them through the swinging doors...
...matter of seconds it was all over. The woman in the gallery, jabbering in Spanish, waved a Puerto Rican flag, bolted for the door after her fleeing companions. The House was in an uproar, and five members were writhing and bleeding from bullet wounds...
...Jensen of Iowa was standing directly under the Ladies' Gallery when the shooting began. He staggered, hit by a bullet that was intended for Martin. Jensen gasped, "They got me," and tottered through a door into the Speaker's Lobby. There he fell on his back in a widening pool of blood. Michigan's Alvin Bentley was standing by his seat in the third row when a bullet ripped into his chest. He slumped to his seat, then toppled over unconscious in the well of the House...