Within seconds, however, the President began coughing up blood and the limousine changed course and sped for George Washington University Hospital, where the President underwent two hours of life-saving surgery. Hinckley was still clicking the trigger on his twenty-two when secret service agents ...
River—between two other boroughs, the Bronx and Queens—that has a fascinating but little-known history. It's called North Brother Island, and it's infamous for its most famous former resident, "Typhoid Mary," who for a time was a quarantined patient at the island's Riverside Hospital. ...
Using normal time-rate/distance, who should have arrived at George Washington University Hospital first? The President should have. Well, who did? You know it's a trick question. The ambulance arrived 15 minutes before the President. When asked, "What happened?" the Secret Service simply ...