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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:45 AM Jun 2017

Shooting in Congress

This seems to have totally disappeared from our memory!!!


In March 1954, some Puerto Ricans wanting independence
got into Congress, wounding several and killing a policeman.
Google lists info at Wikipedia as well as some videos of the
event.

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Shooting in Congress (Original Post) bobbieinok Jun 2017 OP
First thing I thought of when I read the subject line. rzemanfl Jun 2017 #1
All of us Break time Jun 2017 #2
True. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2017 #3

rzemanfl

(29,554 posts)
1. First thing I thought of when I read the subject line.
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:55 AM
Jun 2017

The median age in the U.S. is 37 or 38, so a lot of folks would not have gotten that from the thread title.

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