Strange Congress: 1954, Puerto Rican Nationalists Gang Shoot Up the House of Representatives
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="296" caption="In this image taken moments after the shooting, (from left foreground) House Pages Bill Goodwin, Paul Kanjorski, and Bill Emerson carry a stretcher bearing a wounded Member to a waiting ambulance. Photo from the Office of the Clerk."][/caption]
On March 1st, 1954 the United States Capitol was under attack and five Members of Congress were shot.
The attackers, Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodríguez, displayed a Puerto Rican flag before shooting. The four were part of a Puerto Rican nationalist gang that tried to assassinate President Truman in 1950.
They opened fire from ...
