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They gathered for a moment of silence at 13.19, at the time of the bomb blast.
Attack 50 years ago to this day was directed at the heart American freedom.
He aimed at where our nation was forged during the revolution and where George Washington said goodbye to knowing that the future of his new nation was insured.
On December 4, 1783, nine days after the British evacuation New York CityWashington held a banquet at Tavern Frances in the lower part of Manhattan to say goodbye to his soldiers.
On January 24, 1975, the Puerto Rican separatist group, Faln, set a bomb that contradict the historic site at lunchtime, killing four and wounding more than 50 others in the lower part of Manhattan. Sixty-six-year-old banker Harold Sherburne, 28-year-old businessman Alex Berger and 32-year-old James Geork were killed.
“They really attacked the American people,” says Joe Connor, whose father Frank was a 33-year-old banker who was killed in a terrorist attack.
“They attacked Frances Tavern because George Washington said goodbye to his officers after the revolutionary war, where the sons of freedom met and it was a symbol of American freedom and justice and freedom, and they could not adhere to it.”
The bomb explodes into the Frances Tavern. Four people were killed and more than 50 were injured. Faln, a Puerto Rican nationalist group, took responsibility. (New York Daily News via Getty Images)
Joe was 9 years old on the day his father was killed, and in decades after that he dedicated his life to bringing justice for his father and other victims. He is the author of “Shattered Lives: Overcoming the Frances Tavern Terror”, which is now a documentary. Connor, with other families, chosen officials and police, led a mission to calling terrorists to responsibility.
No one has ever been charged with the attack, but a man believed to be the main producer of the Terrorist Group, Willie Morales, he fled to Cuba, where he lived along with approximately 50 other American fugitives. AND Congress Laws Named after Joe’s father and the country’s countryman New Jersey Wernera Foerster, who was killed by Black Liberation militant Army Joanne Camesat, also known as Assata Shakur, who is also on the run in Cuba, requires Havana to return the fugitive.
“It is a very concise, clear proposal for a law that requires a refund,” Connor says. “There was a mystics around Castro’s regime and Che Guevara, some fantastic romantic view of these people. But they were nothing more than a Marxist bully and waged their own war against the United States for many years.”
In the last days of duty, former President Joe Biden removed the Cuba from the list of state sponsors of the terrorism of state department.
President Donald Trump immediately returned Havan to the list, and in his first term he also promised to put pressure on Cuba to return Morales and other fugitives.
Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Attends a pre-election rally for former President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 9, 2024 in Dorala, Florida. (Joe Radle/Getty Images)
While hearing to confirm US Senate, he was called US Secretary -General Marco Rubio for Cuba Cut the criminals staying on the lama.
“There are fugitives of the US judiciary, including the killers of police officers and others who are actively housed in Cuba and protected from the long hand of the US judiciary by the Cuban regime. Therefore, in my opinion there is no doubt that they fulfill all qualifications to be a state sponsor of terrorism,” said Rubio .
Over the last two decades, Faln members have been pardoned, as if the years that had gone diminished their crimes. President Barack Obama softened the 70-year sentence Oscar Lopez River, who was convicted of a rebel conspiracy and charged with other crimes. President Bill Clinton offered a pardon to closed members of the terrorist group, which accepted eleven in 1999.
At the ceremony of commemorating the bombing of the city, a police commissioner of the city of New York, Jessica Tisch, said that the bombing “was terrorism in its purest form, which aimed to scare, to intimidate, injure, to maim and kill to achieve their political purpose.
“For 50 years, no one has been responsible for this attack, which is still an open investigation into NYPD and Joint Terrorism Taskforce,” Tisch said. “Our department never forgets.”
Jessica Tisch speaks after she passed the oath as the next Chief of New York Police during the ceremony at those Plaza shelves on November 25, 2024 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Prior to the ceremony commemorating the bombing, there was an emotional lunch, which included family members, dozens of former FBI agents, surviving bombing and others.
The son of Joe Connora, Frank, named after his grandfather and who studies for a priest, gave a blessing.
“We remember four killed 50 years ago today at this place and all those whose lives have extinguished terrorism.
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Joe noticed that the gathering was maintained by the door where the bomb, which consisted of ten pounds of dynamite, was located in an unsightly briefcase.
“Cuba has to hand over these people at the end, and the only way to happen is to keep them on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and to continue pressing Cuba,” he says. “This is the moment to do that.”
