US Secret Service Agent. He was involved in a fierce gunfight on November 1, 1950 with two Puerto Rican nationalists who were attempting to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. One of the assassins and a White House police officer, Leslie Coffelt, were killed in the shootout. The incident was recounted in the 2005 book “American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman — and the Shoot-out That Stopped It,” by Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge, Jr.  (bio by: George Bacon)  Family links:  Parents:  Earl C. Boring (1884 – 1955)  Frances M. Murray Boring (1886 – 1986)  Spouse:  Ruth Lucille Lehner Boring (1919 – 2005)*  Siblings:  James E. Boring (1907 – 1977)*  Colonel E. Boring (1909 – 1983)*  Floyd Murray Boring (1915 – 2008) *Calculated relationship