5 (Alvin M. Bentley, Clifford Davis, Ben F. Jensen, George Hyde Fallon, and Kenneth A. Roberts)
Perpetrators
Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andrés Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez
Motive
Puerto Rican independence movement
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Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Flag of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Events and revolts
Río Piedras massacre
Ponce massacre
Cadets of the Republic
Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza)
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
Jayuya Uprising
San Juan Nationalist revolt
Utuado uprising
Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
1954 United States Capitol shooting
Nationalist leaders
Pedro Albizu Campos
José S. Alegría
Casimiro Berenguer
Blanca Canales
Rafael Cancel Miranda
José Coll y Cuchí
Oscar Collazo
Rosa Collazo
Juan Antonio Corretjer
Julia de Burgos
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco
Lolita Lebrón
Tomás López de Victoria
Hugo Margenat
Francisco Matos Paoli
Ruth Mary Reynolds
Isolina Rondón
Vidal Santiago Díaz
Clemente Soto Vélez
Griselio Torresola
Antonio Vélez Alvarado
Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff
Olga Viscal Garriga
Notable nationalists
Margot Arce de Vázquez
Elías Beauchamp
Carmelo Delgado Delgado
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irvin Flores
Isabel Freire de Matos
Hiram Rosado
Isabel Rosado
José Ferrer Canales
René Marqués
Pedro "Davilita" Ortiz Dávila
Germán Rieckehoff
Helen Rodríguez Trías
Daniel Santos
Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach
Félix Benítez Rexach
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The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists seeking to promote Puerto Rican independence from the United States. They fired 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols onto the legislative floor from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber within the United States Capitol.
The nationalists, identified as Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began shooting at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered. The assailants were arrested, tried successively in two federal courts and convicted. All received long consecutive sentences, amounting to life imprisonment. In 1978 and 1979, their sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter.[2] All four returned to Puerto Rico.
^"Congress Congressmen Capitol Shooting 1954". AP Images.
^"Commutations Granted by President Jimmy Carter (1977 - 1981)". www.justice.gov. December 8, 2017.
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