Puerto Rico Riots
Date taken:November 1950
Photographer:George Silk
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Puerto Rico Riots
Date taken:November 1950
Photographer:George Silk
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...a2_large-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...91_large-1.jpg
By the faces, they look to have hand picked a bunch...for their linguistic abilities.
Not so much a riot as a failed revolution, the belligerents attempted to assassinate Truman that month also.
The unit is from the Puerto Rican National Guard, in response to the Jayuya uprising.
I love that woody wagon in the background! It looks like it could be built on a 1949/50 Ford pickup chassis.