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    George Peter Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York...
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  • active. Meeker Avenue Bridge opens. 1940 November 16: "Mad Bomber" George Metesky plants the first bomb of his 16-year campaign of public bombings. American...
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  • authors' names, though some had pseudonyms like "George Metevsky," a reference to the "Mad Bomber" George Metesky. In the early part of 1967, writers Chester...
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    who rose to fame after his profile of New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky was published in the New York Times in 1956. The media dubbed him "The...
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    George Keyt (1901–1993), Sri Lankan painter George Metesky (1903–1994), American bomber and terrorist George Cecil Horry (1907–1981), British-born New Zealand...
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  • libraries, and office buildings. Metesky was confined to a state mental hospital, but Melville began writing "George Metesky Was Here" on buildings around...
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  • authors' names, though some had pseudonyms like "George Metevsky," a reference to the "Mad Bomber" George Metesky. (After some HIP members tried to find out...
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  • horticulturist, translator and poet. Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist. George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic. Joe Pass, 65, American jazz...
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  • Unknown 1940–1956 Serial bombings 0 15 New York City, United States George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", places over 30 bombs in New York City in public places...
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    who attempted to murder Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya. Died in 1988. George Metesky – New York City's "Mad Bomber". Died in 1994. Izola Ware Curry – black...
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    spill Carmine DeSapio Consolidated Edison Building Gashouse District George Metesky, "the Mad Bomber", terrorized NYC for perceived mistreatment by Con...
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    (1965), committed in 1990 for the accidental killing of his mother. George Metesky (1903–1994), serial bomber; committed to Creedmoor in 1973 and released...
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  • Ghetto from the outside world. 1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated...
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    Many bombs have been detonated since 1930, including ones made by George Metesky, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Animal Liberation Front, al-Qaeda...
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  • office building (only in 1957 later is the culprit, former employee George Metesky, apprehended). The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers...
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    going well for Britain at the time. November 16, 1940 – "Mad Bomber" George Metesky plants the first bomb of his 16-year campaign of public bombings. January...
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    attendance. Fuck the System (pamphlet, 1967) printed under the pseudonym George Metesky Revolution for the Hell of It (1968, Dial Press) published under the...
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  • the retirement of Rocky Marciano. December 2 – A pipe bomb planted by George Metesky explodes at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York, injuring 6...
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  • Consolidated Edison office building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended). December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the...
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  • a renowned psychiatrist involved with profiling offenders such as George Metesky and Albert DeSalvo, devised a psychiatric profile of the killer. In...
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  • United States respectively. January 22 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, and charged with planting more...
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  • [citation needed] Unknown 45 1940–1956 Bombing 0 10 New York City, New York George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places...
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    in Waterbury 1914 to 1933, claimed to be full-blooded Pueblo Indian George Metesky (1903–1994), "Mad Bomber" who launched reign of terror in New York City...
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    21, 2012). "Justice Story: FALN bomb kills 4 at Fraunces Tavern, where George Washington said farewell to troops". NY Daily News. Retrieved April 17,...
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    site of the Hell Gate generating plant of Consolidated Edison, where George Metesky, the Mad Bomber who plagued New York City for decades, was injured....
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  • Press Club's Gold Typewriter Award for his part in bringing to justice George Metesky, New York's Mad Bomber. He won the Uniformed Firefighters Association...
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  • bin Laden Colleen LaRose James J. Lee Timothy McVeigh Sam Melville George Metesky Thomas Mooney John Allen Muhammad Terry Nichols José Padilla Aimal Qazi...
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  • Guest stars included Peter Falk, Will Kuluva, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, George Maharis, Simon Oakland, Edgar Stehli, and Paul Stevens. The syndicated series...
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  • from the Sinai Peninsula. 1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more...
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