Joseph Colombo, a 54-year-old Italian-American male, died on May 22, 1978. His death, which occurred at St. Luke's Hospital in Newburgh, New York, was officially attributed to cardiac arrest. However, this was a direct consequence of injuries he sustained seven years prior. Colombo had been in a state of near-total paralysis after being shot on June 28, 1971, at the second Italian Unity Day rally in Columbus Circle, an event he organized.
On that day, as he prepared to address the crowd,
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