It didn't make The New York Times or Washington Post obituaries today, but one of the most dramatic, and in some ways revealing, incidents in the long life of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara occurred in 1972 -- when a young man, reputedly angry about Vietnam, attempted to heave him off the Martha's Vineyard ferry, during its 7-mile voyage, and nearly succeeded.
Only McNamara's tenacious hold on a railing kept him from likely death.
The episode took place on Sept....
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