Article 757YH Cool as a cucumber: man calmly ate salad as press dinner shooting unfolded

Cool as a cucumber: man calmly ate salad as press dinner shooting unfolded

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Richard Luscombe
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Michael Glantz, a senior talent agent, says he wasn't scared' and wanted to watch' as chaos unfolded at the event

A guest at the White House correspondents' dinner retained his table manners and was spotted calmly tucking into his salad course on Saturday, soon after gunfire rang out and heavily armed Secret Service agents swarmed into the ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel.

A video clip captured Michael Glantz, a senior talent agent with the Creative Artists Agency, leisurely forking leaves from his burrata salad into his mouth against a backdrop of a stage just yards away, by then empty of everyone save a rifle-wielding officer in tactical combat gear.

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