page_title: Vidal Santiago Díaz
section_title: Ponce massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Vidal Santiago Díaz / Ponce massacre
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a famous historical picture taken of the Ponce Massacre http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ponce-1937.htm Photo was taken by Carlos Torres Morales, a photo journalist for the newspaper El Imparcial. In accordance with the "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (January 1, 2009),[1] images published with notice but with no subsequent copyright renewal from 1923 through 1963, are public domain due to copyright expiration. El Imparcial, which went out of service in 1973, could not have renewed its copyright which expired. Therefore, since Puerto Rico fell under US copyright in 1937 as well as today, this would make the Ponce Massacre image public domain. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:08, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
context_page_description: Vidal Santiago Díaz was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and served as president of the Santurce Municipal Board of officers of the party. He was also the personal barber of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Though not involved in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, Santiago Díaz's barbershop was attacked by forty armed police officers and U.S. National Guardsmen. The attack was historic in Puerto Rico—the first time an event of that magnitude had ever been transmitted live via radio and heard all over the island.
context_section_description: On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party held a peaceful march in the city of Ponce. This march was meant to commemorate the ending of slavery in Puerto Rico by the governing Spanish National Assembly in 1873. It also protested the imprisonment by the U.S. government of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos on charges of sedition.
  The innocent Palm Sunday March turned into a police slaughter. Both march participants and innocent bystanders were fired upon by the Insular Police, resulting in the death of eighteen unarmed civilians and one policeman—every one from police fire as none of the civilians carried any firearms. In addition, some 235 civilians were wounded, including women and children. Journalists and photojournalists were present. The news was reported throughout the island the following day. Furthermore, a photo appeared in the newspaper El Imparcial, which was circulated to members of the U.S. Congress.
  The Insular Police, a force resembling the National Guard, had been trained by U.S. military personnel. They were under the command of General Blanton Winship, the U.S.-appointed governor of Puerto Rico, who gave the order to attack the Ponce march on Palm Sunday.
caption: The Ponce massacre. Police kill 17 unarmed Puerto Ricans on Palm Sunday, including a 7-year-old girl, who was shot in the back.
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