Puerto Rico nationalists opened fire in U.S. House
March 1, 1954, Gazette front page, after five congressmen were shot in the U.S. Capitol, including Ben Jensen of Iowa. (Gazette archives)
U.S. Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, in 1958 stands in the lane that led to his boyhood farm home in Marion Township, 4 miles northeast of Marion. The Iowa congressman was among five representatives wounded in a shooting at the U.S. Capitol in 1954. (Gazette archives)
U.S. Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, 1954 photo
This autographed photo of U.S. Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, was most likely a gift to a political supporter sometime during his 13 consecutive terms in Congress. A Marion native, he was in office from 1939 to 1965, when he lost a reelection bid in his southwest Iowa district. (Gazette archives)