July 4, 1906—There was unwonted sensation amidst the celebration at the end of the Spring Stakes horse race at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. An assassin's bullet—aimed at Robert Pinkerton, the head of the Eastern Office of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency—missed its mark. He was unfazed, but agents from Pinkerton Horse Racing Division sprang into action, diligently searching the stands to find who fired the shot that almost killed an innocent bystander. Unravel the surprising story of what really happened and how it all began 15 years earlier at the Battle of Gravesend, a war between the Brooklyn Jockey Club and the New York Syndicate that took place a few years earlier. Read more here → https://pnk.tn/flg #AmericanHistory #History #FourthofJuly #PinkertonHistory
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