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3 unusual facts about George Metesky


George Metesky

-- it didn't make the Times--> A bomb hung beneath a phone booth shelf exploded on the main floor of Macy's department store, with no injuries.

--Consolidated Edison utility company and lived in Waterbury, Connecticut, with his two unmarried sisters.

As a capacity Radio City Music Hall audience of 6,200 watched Bing Crosby's White Christmas on November 7, a bomb stuffed into the bottom cushion of a seat in the 15th row exploded, injuring four patrons.


NYPD Rodman's Neck Firing Range

Many bombs have been detonated since 1930, including ones made by George Metesky, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Animal Liberation Front and Al-Qaeda.


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