It’s probably a piece of trivia I should have remembered from Junior High, but I learned something I’d often wondered about from *Assassination Vacation*. An overused cliché from action movies and TV shows (and even novels) is the would-be killer bullet stopped by some object in the would-be victim’s vest or coat pocket. I’d wondered whether there was ever a documented case of a pocketwatch or cigarette case saving its carrier’s life.
Turns out (and I can thank Sarah Vowell for … Read the rest