50 years ago today, Havana-backed Puerto Rican terrorists, the FALN, bombed the Fraunces Tavern killing four, and wounding over 50 in New York City. The bomb maker still harbored in Cuba.

On this day in 1975 in New York City: Havana-backed Puerto Rican terrorists, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), placed a bomb in Fraunces Tavern and exploded it at 1:29pm killing four, and wounding over 50 at the historic tavern. 

The four men murdered in the FALN terror bombing at the Fraunces Tavern were Alejandro Berger, Frank Connor, James Gezork, and Harold H. Sherburne.

Despite this, both Presidents Bill Clinton, in 1999, and Barack Obama, in 2017 freed a number of FALN terrorists.

The Clinton Administration in August 1999 commuted the sentences of 16 FALN terrorists.  

The Obama Administrations commuted the sentence of unapologetic FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera in January 2017.

It is important to place these terrorist actions, the response by the Clinton and Obama Administrations in context, and the role of the dictatorship in Cuba.

In November 2017, recently freed Puerto Rican terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera traveled to Cuba where he was honored by the dictatorship. 

In the audience where members of the WASP network, including Gerardo Hernandez, who had been convicted of murder conspiracy for his role in the Brothers to the Rescue shoot down, and had his sentence commuted by Obama in 2014. 

One of the men responsible for this terrorist bombing eluded, and still eludes justice, harbored by the communist dictatorship in Cuba.

The FALN bomb maker, William Morales, fled U.S. custody, following a shoot out in Mexico, he ended up in Cuba where he continues to be harbored by the dictatorship today, a fugitive from American justice.

Bearing witness. Survivors, family members of victims of 1975 Fraunces Tavern FALN bombing, and law enforcement that pursued terrorists gather to continue to seek & demand justice. pic.twitter.com/8qdYzUy8Bw

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Today bore witness as survivors, family members of the victims of the 1975 Fraunces Tavern FALN bombing, and law enforcement that pursued terrorists gathered to continue to seek and demand justice.  

Family, friends, and law enforcement gathered at Fraunces Tavern

They gathered together in the space in the Fraunces Tavern where the bomb had exploded killing Alejandro, Frank, James, and Harold, and injured over 50 others.

At 1:29pm they held a moment of silence outside of the Fraunces Tavern, and held a press conference demanding justice for the victims.