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They met for a moment of silence at 13:19, the time the bomb exploded.
The attack 50 years ago was aimed at the heart of American Liberty.
He went to a place where our nation was forged during the Revolution and where George Washington fired 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 Fraunces Tavern at the bottom of Manhattan to say goodbye to his troops.
On January 24, 1975, the separatist group Porto -Rican, the Faln, planted a bomb that went through the historic place at lunch, killing four and injured more than 50 more people in the lower Manhattan. The sixty-six-year-old banker, Harold Sherburne, the 28-year-old businessmen, Alex Berger, and James Gezz, 32, died.
“They really were attacking the American people,” says Joe Connor, whose father, Frank, was a 33-year-old banker who was killed in the terrorist attack.
“They attacked Tavern Fraunces because this is where George Washington said goodbye to his officers after the revolutionary war, where the children of freedom met and were a symbol of freedom and justice and north -American freedom, And they couldn’t fulfill this. “
A bomb explodes in the tavern of Fraunces. Four people died and more than 50 were injured. The Faln, a nationalist group Porto -Rican, called for responsibility. (New York Daily News through Getty Images)
Joe was 9 years old a day when his father was assassinated, and during his decades he has spent his life justice to his father and the other victims. He is the author of “Shattered Lives: overcoming the Frauentces Tavern Terror”, which is now also a documentary. Connor, with other families, elected officials and agents of the law, have made a mission to take into account the terrorists.
No one has ever been accused in the attack, but the man is believed to be the leading bombs of the terrorist group, Willie Morales, escaped to Cuba, where he has lived along with another 50 North -America fugitives. A Bill at Congress Appointed by Joe’s father and the State Trooper of New Jersey, Werner Foerster, who was assassinated by the militant of the Black Liberation Army Joanne Chesimard, also known by Shakur, who is also located in LAm A Cuba, demands that Havana return the fugitives.
“It is a very concise and clear bill that requires the return,” says Connor. “There has been a mystique on the Castro regime and the Che Guevara, some fantasy romantic vision of these people. But they were nothing more than the Marxist thugs and waged their own war in the United States for many, many years.” .
In its last days in the post, previous President Joe Biden He removed Cuba from the list of sponsor of the state’s state terrorism.
President Donald Trump returned to Havana on the list, and in his first term he also pledged to pressure Cuba to return Morales and the other fugitives.
Senator Marco Rubio, R-FLA., Attends to a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 9, 2024, in Doral, FLA. (Images Joe Raedle/Getty)
During his United States Senate Confirmation Hearing, United States Secretary Marco Rubio, called for Cuba to cough the criminals that remain in the LAm.
“There has been fugitives of North -American Justice, including police killers and others who are actively activated in Cuba and protected from the long -American -American justice of the Cuban regime. So there is no doubt that they fulfill All qualifications for being a state sponsor of terrorism, “said Rubio.
For the last two decades, Faln members have been awarded to mercy, as if their crimes passed. President Barack Obama commuted the 70 -year sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was convicted of sedative conspiracy and accused of other crimes. President Bill Clinton offered mercy to the imprisoned members of the terrorist group, which eleven accepted in 1999.
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In a ceremony that marked the bombing, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the bombing “was terrorism in its purest form, aimed at scare, intimidating, hurting, damaging, and kill to achieve his political purpose.
“For 50 years, no one has been responsible for this attack, which is still an investigation opened by the NYPD and the task of joint terrorism,” said Tisch. “Our department is never forgotten.”
Jessica Tisch speaks after being sworn as the next curator of the New York Police Department during a ceremony at 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 by his grandfather and who is studying to be a priest, blessed.
“We remember the four men who died 50 years ago today in this place, and all those whose life were reduced by terrorism.”
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Joe noted how the meeting of the meeting was where the bomb, which consisted of ten kilos of dynamite, was placed inside an unpleasant briefcase.
“Cuba has to end these people and the only way to happen is to keep them on the list of state sponsors on the terrorist list and maintaining the pressure on Cuba,” he says. “This is the time to do it.”
