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Leslie William "Les" Coffelt (August 15, 1910 – November 1, 1950) was an officer of the White House Police, who was killed while defending U.S. President Harry S. Truman against an armed attack on November 1, 1950 at Blair House, where the president was living during renovations at the White House. Coffelt was wounded during the assassination attempt, which two Puerto Rican nationalists carried out. Though mortally wounded by three bullets, Coffelt returned fire moments later and killed one of the attackers with a single shot to the head. The other was convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to death; Truman commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and the man was released from jail in 1979. Acknowledging the importance of the question of Puerto Rico's status, Truman authorized a plebiscite in Puerto Rico in 1952 to determine its relationship to the U.S. The people voted to continue as a U.S. Commonwealth, as established in 1952. ==Background== Leslie Coffelt was born to Will Coffelt and Effie Keller in the Shenandoah Valley town of Oranda, Virginia. As a boy, his younger sister called him "Etts" because she could not pronounce the name "Leslie." His siblings were Harry, Hollis, Norman, and Mildred, called "Midge." As a boy, Coffelt grew up hunting and handling firearms. Coffelt was the second in his family to graduate from high school, and he was described by those who knew him as an expert sharpshooter. He grew up to be a quiet, good-humored man who was well liked. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leslie Coffelt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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