(YOUNG LORDS) A Rifle a Militant a Casket

Sale 2471 - Lot 383

Price Realized: $ 125

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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300

(YOUNG LORDS.) A Rifle, a Militant, a Casket. Associated Press photograph, 7 1/2 x 10 inches; minor wear, captioned in image, no markings on verso. New York, 19 October 1970

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"A member of the Puerto Rican militant group, the Young Lords, stands guard with a shotgun near the casket of Julio Roldan at an East Harlem church. . . . Roldan was found hanged in his cell in the Tombs prison in Manhattan Friday. The police say his death was a suicide; the Young Lords claim he was murdered. The Young Lords seized his body and barricaded themselves in the church."