Word: giglottos
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Herbert Giglotto, 29, and his wife Evelyn, 28, had gone to bed early. Suddenly the sounds of splintering wood and shouting men jolted them awake. Giglotto jumped up and headed in the direction of the noise. At the top of the stairs, he recalls now, he saw "four or five long-haired men with guns" rushing toward him. "I looked at my wife and said 'My God, we're dead. The hippies have come to kill...
...young rock freaks who had recently occupied the house next door on Arrowhead Drive in Collinsville, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. Rather, they were agents of the federal Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (DALE), backed up by perhaps a dozen policemen. As the Giglottos tell it, the raiders two weeks ago ransacked the house and loosed a fusillade of obscenities that they threatened to follow with bullets. They forced the couple to lie on the bed face down and handcuffed them. The leader of the group held a cocked revolver to Giglotto's head while...
...wife was crying and begging them not to kill me," says Giglotto, a boilermaker who worked on construction projects until he left his job after the raid. The man with the pistol repeatedly asked him, "Where's it at?" and rattled off a series of names that Giglotto did not recognize. Then someone ran up and said, "Hey, we made a mistake!" As quickly as they had entered, the agents prepared to leave. When Giglotto asked for an explanation, one of them replied: "Shut your mouth...
...Askews and the Giglottos want more consolation than that; they are bringing suit against the Federal Government. Evelyn Giglotto says that she can no longer sleep in the bedroom where she thought her husband was going to be murdered. Virginia Askew, according to her husband, has a history of "psychological problems." She has been in a local hospital's mental ward since the raid took place...
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