Biography
Angel Luis Arzola Velez was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass trial that followed the March 1954 attack on the United States House of Representatives. The government charged Nationalist organizers with seditious conspiracy as part of an alleged campaign to end United States rule in Puerto Rico by force. A jury convicted Angel Luis Arzola Velez in 1955, and the court imposed a prison sentence of 4 years.
Photo credit
Angel Luis Arzola Velez, Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1955, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.
