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They met for a moment of silence at 1:19 pm, at the time the bomb exploded.
The attack 50 years ago was aimed at the heart of American freedom.
He went to a place where our nation was forged during the revolution and where George Washington said goodbye knowing that the future of his new nation was assured.
On December 4, 1783, nine days after the British evacuated New York CityWashington celebrated a banquet in Frances Tavern at Bajo Manhattan to say goodbye to his troops.
On January 24, 1975, the Puerto Rican separatist group, El Fale, planted a bomb that crossed the historical site at lunch time, killing four and wounding more than 50 in the low Manhattan. The banker of sixty -six years Harold Sherburne, 28 -year -old businessmen Alex Berger and James Gezork, 32, were killed.
“They were really attacking the American people,” says Joe Connor, whose father, Frank, was a 33 -year -old banker who was killed in the terrorist attack.
“Foundes attacked Tavern because that is where George Washington said goodbye to their officers after the revolutionary war, where the children of freedom met and was a symbol of freedom and justice and freedom American, and could not comply with that”.
A bomb explodes in France Tavern. Four people died and more than 50 were injured. El Falen, a Puerto Rican nationalist group, responsibility was affirmed. (New York Daily News through Getty Images)
Joe was 9 years old that his father was killed, and in later decades, he has dedicated his life to bringing justice to his father and the other victims. He is the author of “Shattered Lives: to overcome Tavern de Fraunces”, which is also now a documentary. Connor, with other families, elected officials and application of the law, has fought a mission to make terrorists accounts.
No one has been accused in the attack, but the man believes he is the main bomb manufacturer of the terrorist group, Willie Morales, escaped to Cuba, where he has lived along with another 50 US fugitives. TO Bill in Congress Called by Joe’s father and New Jersey state soldier, Werner Foerster, who was killed by the militant of the black liberation army, Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who is also in the LAM in Cuba, demands that Havana Return to fugitives.
“It is a very concise and clear bill that demands the statement,” says Connor. “There has been a mystique about the Castro regime and Che Guevara, of a romantic fantasy vision of these people. But they were nothing more than Marxist thugs and were fighting their own war in the United States for many, many years.”
In his last days in office, former President Joe Biden He eliminated Cuba from the list of state terrorism sponsors of the State Department.
President Donald Trump immediately put Havana on the list, and in his first term he also promised to press Cuba to return Morales and the other fugitives.
Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., He attends a campaign demonstration for former President Donald Trump at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 9, 2024 in Doral, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty images)
During his confirmation hearing of the United States Senate, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio For Cuba To cough the criminals who remain in the LAM.
“There are American justice fugitives, including police murderers and others that are actively housed in Cuba and protected from the long arm of US justice by the Cuban regime. So, there is no doubt that they comply with all qualifications to be a sponsor State of terrorism, “said Rubio.
In the last two decades, Clemencia has been granted members, as if the years passed their crimes decreased. President Barack Obama commuted the 70 -year sentence of Oscar López Rivera, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and accused of other crimes. President Bill Clinton offered clemency to the imprisoned members of the terrorist group, which Eleven accepted in 1999.
In a ceremony that marks the bombing, the police commissioner of New York City, Jessica Tisch, said that bombing “was terrorism in its purest form, destined to scare, intimidate, hurt, mutilate and kill to achieve its political purpose.
“For 50 years, no one has been responsible for this attack, which is still an open investigation by the New York Police and the Joint Terrorism Working Group,” Tisch said. “Our department never forgets.”
Jessica Tisch speaks after having sworn as the next commissioner of the New York Police Department during a ceremony in a police square on November 25, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty images)
Before the ceremony that marked the bombing, there was an emotional lunch attended by family members, dozens of former FBI agents, survivors of the bombing and others.
Joe Connor’s son, Frank, named for his grandfather and studies to be a priest, gave the blessing.
“We remember the four men who were killed 50 years ago today in this same place, and all those whose lives were daring for terrorism.”
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Joe noticed how the door was holding the door where the bomb, which consisted of ten pounds of dynamite, was placed inside an unpretentious briefcase.
“Cuba has to eventually deliver these people, and the only way that will happen is to keep them in the state list of terrorism sponsors and maintain pressure on Cuba,” he says. “This is the time to do it.”
