On March 21 , 1967 , he was shot in Santo Domingo while traveling with Marino García , in an attempted assassination made by the late dictator Trujillo 's supporters . He survived by driving himself to a medical clinic . On February 15 , 1970 the Dominicana de Aviación flight wherein his sister Aída Imbert Barrera , his wife Guarina Tessón Hurtado , and his daughter , sportswoman Leslie Imbert Tessón , were travelling , crashed into the Caribbean Sea
crashed into the Caribbean Sea
Dominicana DC-9 air disaster
Antonio Imbert Barrera