United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) |U.S. Capitol
shooting incident (1954)| |Date||March 1, 1954| |Target||United
States Capitol (chamber of the House of Representatives)|
|Injured (non-fatal)||Alvin M. Bentley, Clifford Davis, Ben F.
Jensen, George Hyde Fallon, and Kenneth A. Roberts|
|Perpetrators||Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andrés
Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodríguez| |Motive||Puerto
Rican independence movement| |Part of a series on the| Flag of
the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party The United States Capitol
shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954 by four
Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-
automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for
visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United
States Capitol. They wanted to highlight the struggle for
independence from US rule. The Nationalists: Lolita Lebrón,
Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving
Flores Rodríguez, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began s