Guests from neighboring bungalows were also part of the crowd.
“Who can even imagine something like this happening here in America, at a luxury vacation resort,” said one guest, shaking his head in disbelief.
“We could have been killed,” said another guest.
But then each of the people who had just spoken fell silent when an elderly man, also a guest at the resort, said what they all had been thinking but dared not say: “This is utter madness; besides, what could that young woman (meaning P. J. Austin) possibly have done to wreak such vengeance?”
Meanwhile, most Americans were overwhelmed as the horrific events opened wide on their television screens in their living rooms and kitchens in real time.
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Not far away, in the Midway Motel, Julia was watching the raid at the Hueston W
