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Article: Puerto Rican nationalist, free after 26 years in prison for shooting up Congress, leads Puerto Rican independence movement.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 18, 1997
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ The white-haired woman sits patiently on the front porch of her house, her dog, Bambi, resting nearby. As a visitor approaches, the dog barks, the woman stands to open the gate. But first she must unlock it. It would be foolish, in today's Puerto Rico, not to keep it locked. But for Lolita Lebron, convicted more than four decades ago on five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, this is not the first time she has lived behind bars.
Can it be that this gentle-looking woman is the one who in 1954 led a posse of Puerto Rican nationalists into the U.S. House of Representatives' visitors gallery and began a shoot-'em up unprecedented ...