MR. CHURCHILL HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Received Wednesday, 11.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept 17. - Mr. Churchill narrowly. escaped assassinatioii- ffuring his yisit "to the '-"Omf&di Stlutes in -Jun^ 1942; .accprding to MiShael F. Ehilly Vho headed the 'White House Secret Service durin& much of the late President Roosevelt s administration. Writing in the Saturday Evenmg, Post, Mr. Reilly says that the British authorities overruled his efforts to. have Mr. Churchill' s plane take off elsewhere than at a puhlic British airhase. Baltimore Secret Service men were ordered to accompany Mr. Churchill to the plane. One of them overpowered a field guard at the plane who was muttering: "I am going to kill that Churchill." The guard was later judged insane and committed to an institution. Mr. Churchill was not informed of the incident.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1946, Page 5
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