On the night of August 4th, Arthur Bowen, an eighteen-year-old slave, stumbled into the bedroom where his owner, Anna Thornton, slept. He had an ax in the crook of his arm. An alarm was raised, and he ran away. Word of the incident spread rapidly, and within days, Washington's first race riot explod...
Turned out to be a much less interesting book than I had hoped. Win Scott, who was CIA Station Chief in Mexico City during the 1960's, was a minor figure. The central chapters deal, in a very convoluted fashion, with Oswald's visit to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City in September 1963...
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