Fact-check: “Vice President Nixon's visit to Venezuela in 1958 and assasagnation attempt”
Verdict: Mostly True (87% confidence)
Multiple independent sources document that Vice President Nixon visited Venezuela on May 13, 1958, and faced a violent mob attack on his motorcade in Caracas that was described as a near-miss with death or serious injury, with pre-visit intelligence also reporting a planned assassination attempt. However, no primary sources confirm a successful or completed assassination attempt in the strict sense; the documented event was a mob assault involving rocks, steel pipes, and clubs that Nixon surviv…
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