He served 25 years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
, as the independence movement sought to reassert itself in Puerto Rico. Earlier that year, Congress created a financial oversight panel to manage the island’s crippling debt, drawing accusations that “a dictatorship” was deciding its fate and leading Gov. Alejandro J. García Padilla to appear before a United Nations committee, where he effectively declared that Puerto Rico was still a U.S. colony.
Commonwealth status for the island soon followed, and in 1953 the United Nations removed Puerto Rico from its list of “non-self-governing territories.”“That’s when the nationalists said, ‘We have to send a message,’ ” Mr. Cancel Miranda told the Times. “That was the reason for the attack on Congress.”
After lunching at Union Station, he and his fellow assailants got lost, asked a pedestrian for directions and eventually made their way to the Capitol.
All five injured congressmen returned to the House, and the assailants received sentences that threatened to keep them behind bars until their deaths. Mr. Cancel Miranda, who said that most of the wounded “got hurt by my gun,” was sent to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay and later to prisons in Kansas and Illinois.His sentence was commuted in 1979, along with those of Lebrón, Flores and Oscar Collazo, who had tried to assassinate Truman.
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