Biography
Manuel Rabago Torres was a bodyguard to party president Pedro Albizu Campos who also attended meetings of the Chicago junta. 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 Manuel Rabago Torres in October 1954. The court sentenced Manuel Rabago Torres to six years in federal prison, and the Second Circuit affirmed the conviction on May 10, 1955.
Photo credit
Manuel Rabago Torres, Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1954, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.
