José N. Gándara

Who is José N. Gándara?

Dr. José Narciso Gándara Cartagena was a Puerto Rican physician and public servant. He led medical personnel in the treatment of the hundreds of wounded of the Ponce Massacre that occurred on Palm Sunday, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, at the hands of the Insular Police, under orders of the American colonial governor Blanton Winship. He also provided expert witness testimony regarding the Puerto Rican Nationalists victims being shot on their backs while they ran away from the police, and that many were wounded by the police using their clubs and bare fists.