A prominent city councilmember, Tito Garcia, is assassinated at the beginning of the Santa Fe Fiesta.
The situation explodes in violence when on.
Both Spanish and Native American groups blame each other for Garcia\'s murder and vow revenge.
The procession celebrated the Reconquest of Santa Fe twelve years after the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion drove the Spanish out of Santa Fe.
Known as a peacemaker, he had negotiated an agreement to ban a controversial Fiesta procession known as the Entrada .
A prominent city councilmember, Tito Garcia, is assassinated at the beginning of the Santa Fe Fiesta