Word: torresola
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Oscar Collazo, the sad-eyed little Puerto Rican nationalist, had virtually no defense to offer for his part in last November's wild-eyed plot to assassinate President Truman. He could only insist that he and his fellow conspirator, Griselio Torresola (who died during the furious gun battle on the Blair House sidewalk), had no intention of shooting the President; they were simply staging a demonstration in behalf of Puerto Rican independence. In Washington federal court last week, the jury took only one ballot to decide on its verdict: guilty of the premeditated murder of White House Guard Leslie...
...living gunman over, jerked roughly at his coat, fumbled through his pockets, pulled out his shirt and carefully snapped the elastic band of his underwear to be certain it was not hooked to a hidden bomb mechanism. They demanded his name. He whispered: "Oscar Collazo." His companion was Griselio Torresola. They were Puerto Ricans. Guards frisking the dead gunman's pockets found a letter written in Spanish. Translated, it read...
When he returned to Puerto Rico in 1947, Albizu found that he was a back number. He spent much of his time talking bitterly to a few followers at the mountain home of Blanca Canales Torresola, cousin of the man shot dead last week on the steps of Blair-Lee House. Most Puerto Ricans had come to realize that independence, with the accompanying loss of tariff advantages and tax refunds, would be economic suicide. And in recent years, Puerto Rico had won more & more self-rule. Only two years ago Puerto Ricans had elected their own governor for the first...