retaliate and kill the U.S. police chief in Puerto Rico; they are picked up and killed in police headquarters.

A Federal grand jury indicts Albizu Campos and others of sedition and “conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States by force and violence.” But when the trial ends in a hung jury, the court retries them, achieves a conviction, and imposes fifteen year sentences to be served in Atlanta’s federal prison.

Back on the Island, repression intensifies. Under the governor's orders, police fire into a march in Ponce on March 21, 1937. Nineteen nationalists are killed, and 100 are seriously wounded.

Upon release from prison in 1947, Albizu Campos returns to the Island. Believing that the U.S. plan of “Estado Libre Asociado” or Commonwealth for Puerto