THE HALL STREET SHOOT-OUT A True Story of the Dallas Police Department's Biggest Gun Battle

Hardback. A Print on Demand copy. On a pleasant evening in September of 1969, 26yr old Johnny Thomas excused himself from his family's dinner table, picked up a pump shotgun and announced that he was going hunting - alone. Then he stepped out of his house and shot 16yr old Aljewel Wesley in the face as she sat on her own front porch. It was the first shot fired in what would become the biggest, wildest and most bizarre gunbattle in the 130yr history of the Dallas Police Department. The hour long ordeal would eventually involve over a hundred police officers and an exchange of a thousand or more rounds of gunfire. Ten people would be shot, including a TV news reporter and 4 police officers; 2 people would be killed, including Johnny Thomas. This book is the story of that battle as seen by the officers who fought it, and came to be called "The Hall Street Shoot-Out." Illus. + Index. 161pp. 8vo. h/back. POD. As New in dw.