One bombing spree triggered hundreds of copycat bomb threats across New York institutions

Evidence

New York City shakes and quakes. Wednesday morning, hundreds of bomb threats are reported, including at the UN, the Empire State Building, the Pan Am Building, the home of Hearst Publications, IBM headquarters, CBS, the General Post Office, and the Queens Public Library. That night, a Melville bomb goes off in the Criminal Court Building where the Panther trial preliminaries are to begin. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1489

Categorization

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