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Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976

Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976

Galvin, Kevin

Paperback

Series: Brandeis Law and Society

International RelationsRegional: New EnglandTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1684583330
ISBN13: 9781684583331
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Interweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing victim to explore the roots and unintended consequences of political violence.

1976. The Vietnam War had ended, but radical political groups still operated clandestinely throughout the United States. Nowhere was the threat of civil unrest greater than in Boston. Racial tensions had been building since a federal judge ordered the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, and civic leaders were counting on the pageantry of the nation's Bicentennial to boost both tourism and investment. In April, the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit, prison reformers schooled in Marxism and angered by US interventions abroad, bombed the Suffolk County Courthouse, injuring twenty-two people. The site of the blast marked the spot where the lives of two men intersected: a mill town kid who'd been radicalized in Vietnam and prison, and an immigrant waiting in line because he needed to renew a cab license.

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