Six Seconds
“The plot to kill the pope played out in grainy photos on the computer monitor of Special Agent Blake Walker of the U.S. Secret Service. The gun rose from the crowd in St. Peter’s Square. A Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol. In the right hand of Mehmet Ali Agca who fired five shots at Pope John Paul II. The first round penetrated the pope’s stomach, the second hit his hand, the third his arm. The fourth and fifth shots wounded spectators. The Holy Father fell back into the arms of his secre tar...y. May 13, 1981. A day most of the world would not forget, Walker thought. He was lead advance agent with security for the pope’s upcoming U.S. visit. For Walker, a stickler for research, this was the umpteenth time he’d studied papal assassination attempts. Next. The Philippines. 1995. During a papal visit, firefighters in Manila were called to an apartment fire near the Embassy for the Holy See, where the pope was to sleep. Among the ruins they discovered: bomb-making material, the route of the papal tour marked on maps and two sets of priests’ cassocks.MoreLess
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