. >> joseph connors father was killed in a bombing in 1975.he night he was supposed to celebrate his ninth birthday with his dad and he found out he was dead. after years of spreading the truth about fa l and, he tells me the day after the welcome party is not just mad at rivera anymore, he's met at the local politicians who support him, especially the city council speaker. >> as the politicians were using him for their own benefit. he's out of prison and i can't to anything about that. he can just go away and live a quiet life in puerto rico that's what he wants to do. >> i would argue that a terrorist who is organizing bombing and et cetera should've never seen the light of day. but that aside if he did 35 years in prison, are these people supporting him saying, look he did the crime come he did the time in our happy one of our own are back. where's that the reason people are upset is because they have embraced a terrorist. they are thinking he was wrongly imprisoned. they're calling the sky political prisoner. it's not about a disgusting, l

former nypd bomb squad a detective injured in one of those blasts and joseph connor who lost his fatherln terrorist attack, it's good to have both of you here. thank you for being here tonigh tonight. and just a brief version, you went over to dismantle a bomb after helping some of your fellow officers who had been hit by a bomb, and you lost quite a lot. >> i did. on the evening of december 31st 1982, new year's eve, most officers were of times square of course and we were very shortstaffed. i myself assigned to the bomb squad. i was a junior manager, most of the seniors had off. i had a partner with me a dog handler, and we had received a call that a bomb had exploded at 26 and earl plaza, we responded to there. virtually every window and the back of the building had been blown out. there were shards of glass everywhere. because of that, we had a bomb at k-9 with us and we decided not to use the dog fearing that it would have its paws lacerated by the glass. anthony and i decided to do a manual search of the area. when we were doing that, we heard an explosion, we didn't know from wha

four people died including joseph connors 33-year-old that. >> i was nine years old, working to be celebratingight and we came home from school, is a nice january day we went out to play my mom called the simply telling us there had been an explosion downtown near where my father to work. >> a group with the u.s. long before the days of isis and al qaeda. they call themselves the freedom fighters were responsible for around 120 bombings between 1974 and 1983 in the u.s. decades later they're back in the headlines is controversy gross over the founder of the group, oscar rivera who is said to be honored in the june 11 puerto rican day parade where he will receive the national freedom award. >> like a freedom hero, i don't even know what that means? our freedom hero and a praying and making him a celebrity? he's a terrorist. >> after he spent 35 years in prison for his role in the group he was convicted and trying to overthrow the government he was freed last month after president obama offered clemency. his supporters say he was never linked to any bombing. to learn more i skype with enough pi