Oprah Had No Idea Her 'Paranoid' Guard Had Stopped an Assassination Attempt on Reagan

Описание: When a massive flower arrangement arrived at Harpo Studios in Chicago addressed to Oprah Winfrey from a prominent donor, the security guard on duty—a slight, silver-haired woman in her late sixties named Catherine Martinez—refused to let it through the front door, insisted on calling the police to verify the delivery company, demanded the entire arrangement be X-rayed, and ultimately had every single rose taken apart stem by stem looking for threats that, to everyone's frustration, didn't exist, and after three weeks of what Oprah perceived as paranoid, disruptive behavior—stopping Stedman Graham to demand ID, making Gayle King go through the metal detector twice, treating every delivery like a potential attack—Oprah finally had enough and demoted Catherine to the parking garage, dismissing her concerns as the delusions of someone living in past trauma who couldn't adapt to the reality of a television studio.What Oprah didn't know—what nobody at Harpo Studios knew because Catherine Martinez had deliberately kept it hidden—was that on March 30, 1981, twenty-four years earlier outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, Special Agent Catherine Martinez of the United States Secret Service had been standing three feet from President Ronald Reagan when John Hinckley Jr. raised a .22 caliber revolver and fired six shots in 1.7 seconds, and Catherine, processing the threat in a fraction of a second, had moved her body between the President and the gunman, taking a bullet to her left shoulder that shattered her clavicle and collapsed her lung, staying conscious long enough to help shield Reagan as other agents returned fire, earning the Secret Service Valor Award for saving the President's life while bleeding out on the sidewalk in the rain.

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