Biography
Jorge Luis Jimenez was a Chicago member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. A federal grand jury indicted the party leaders on May 25, 1954 for seditious conspiracy, alleging a continuing campaign to end United States rule in Puerto Rico by force. A jury in the Southern District of New York convicted Jorge Luis Jimenez in October 1954. The court sentenced Jorge Luis Jimenez to six years in federal prison, and the Second Circuit affirmed the conviction on May 10, 1955.
Photo credit
Jorge Luis Jimenez, defendant in Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1954, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.
