Word: hassett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the police radio sounded an all-cars bulletin: moments before, a gunman had held up the bank in nearby Sellersburg, was headed their way. Pulling his cruiser across the highway, Walts began a check of passing cars. Among them was one driven by Louisville Factory Worker William G. Hassett, 25. The minister, seated in the squad car, watched his friend interrogate the driver, saw a scuffle, heard shots...
Gingery knew, as he put it later, "that something awful had happened." As he sat frozen in the seat, Hassett leaped from his car, raced across the road toward the police car with a pistol in each hand, obviously to kill what he thought was another policeman. "My first thought," said Gingery, "was that there's nothing I can do-nothing. He's coming to kill me." But the second thought was stronger: picking up a sawed-off shotgun from the front seat of the car, he worked frantically with the safety catch, released it just as Hassett...
Accidental Death. When state police arrived, they found Hassett dead behind the squad car. Across the highway was Sergeant Walts, dead with a bullet in his head. Between the two wandered Robert Gingery in a state of shock...
Writing in the Satevepost, William D. Hassett, a White House secretary under Franklin D. Roosevelt, quotes his own diary to reflect F.D.R.'s bitter-sweet reaction to a bouncing visitor during World War II: "May 27, 1943: Churchill has concluded a fortnight's visit ... It must be a relief to the Boss, for Churchill is a trying guest sometimes-irregular routine -works nights-sleeps days-turns the clock upside down...
...said the President, "what about that account I've read of Fillmore's stopping off in Cincinnati . . . ?" Said Hassett regretfully, "That's all in Mencken." "But I've seen a paper the American Medical Association drew up . . ." said the President. Hassett gave Mencken credit again. The President shook his head. "I'd swear those A.M.A. fellows didn't think it was a hoax...