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1970 Terrorist Bombing of Women's Room at St Paul Dayton's

1970 Terrorist Bombing of Women's Room at St Paul Dayton'

  1. August 22, 1970. Gary Hogan was a 16 year old St. Paul Central student when he set off a bomb a womens room in a downtown St. Paul Dayton's store in 1970. One woman was maimed in the blast. Ten days later another bomb exploded outdoors in St. Paul and police found Hogan injured nearby. Police searched his home and found bomb-making instructions and a pamphlet on urban guerrilla warfare. He had been seen dressed as a woman carrying a package into Dayton's and a friend of Hogan testified he admitted planting the bomb. He was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated arson and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but only served just over three years in the St. Cloud Reformatory.

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    STATE v. HOGAN | Leagle.com

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    About 5 p. m. on Saturday, August 22, 1970, a bomb exploded in a ladies' restroomin Dayton's department store at Sixth and Cedar in downtown St. Paul, ...

  2. Man convicted of 1970 terrorist bombing at St. Paul Dayton's store ...

    www.minnpost.com/.../man-convicted-1970-terrorist-bombing-st-paul-d...‎

    Aug 11, 2010 - But in 1970, the 16-year-old St. Paul Central student set off a bomb in the women's restroom of the downtown St. Paul Dayton's store. ... Ten days after theDayton's bombing, another bomb exploded outdoors in St. Paul, and ...

    Man convicted of 1970 terrorist bombing at St. Paul Dayton's store dies in Washington, D.C.

    By Joe Kimball | 08/11/10
    Gary Hogan
    Gary Hogan
    Gary Hogan — who was 16 when he set off a bomb in the downtown St. Paul Dayton's store in 1970 but went on to live a productive life after serving three years in prison — has died in Washington, D.C.

     Later known Kofi Yusef Owusu, he was 55. A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday in St. Paul.

     A funeral notice (PDF) says he died unexpectedly May 24 in Washington. Over the years, he'd worked as a journalist and civil rights advocate, served in the Peace Corps and was an administrator with the National Black Caucus of Black Legislators.
    He helped organize workers' unions in South Africa and in 1994 volunteered as an organizer in that country's first free elections.

     But in 1970, the 16-year-old St. Paul Central student set off a bomb in the women's restroom of the downtown St. Paul Dayton's store. Mary Peek, who became a well-known political activist, was seriously injured in the blast. She died in 2005.

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    Police Search for Additional Explosives after the Dayton's Bombing, 1970. A bomb exploded in the women's restroom of Dayton's department store in downtown ...

  4. Police Search for Additional Explosives after the... | - (mn70s) [mn70s]

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    Aug 22, 2013 - Police Search for Additional Explosives after the Dayton's Bombing,1970 A bomb exploded in the women's restroom of Dayton's department ...

  5. Dayton's, Downtown St. Paul, Several Years After... | - (mn70s) [mn70s]

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    A bomb exploded in the women's restroom of Dayton's department store in downtown St. Paul on August 22, 1970. The blast seriously injured one woman.

  6. Downtown St. Paul Macy's to close, sources say - TwinCities.com

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    Jan 2, 2013 - 22, 1970, a bomb exploded in the women's restroom at Dayton's, maiming a shopper, Mary Peek. A second and much larger device -- 10 sticks ...

  7. The 1970 Dayton's bombing, still echoing - TwinCities.com

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    Aug 22, 2010 - 22, 1970, a blast ripped through the women's restroom in the ... the finger at the same boy, Gary Hogan, three days after the Dayton's explosion
    The blast 40 years ago today engulfed a schoolteacher combing her hair on the way to a date with her husband, sending shrapnel through her body.

    Even more shocking was the 10 sticks of dynamite found two hours later, in a coin locker outside the restroom. The blast from those would have brought the whole side of Dayton's — now Macy's — down on the 50 or so police officers, firefighters and reporters at the scene. A sharp-eyed security guard had noticed a piece of string hanging from the locker, with 27 minutes left on the bomb's timer.
     "He feels there is no reason for him to look back."
    But before she died in 2005 at age 82, the victim, Mary Peek — whose lungs were burned in the attack, leading to chronic and ultimately fatal obstructive pulmonary disease — told the Pioneer Press: "Maybe he's been trying to make amends, I don't know. But it would be nice to hear him say he regretted the years that I spent serving a sentence with him."
    'HE TRIED TO MAKE A STATEMENT'
    At 5:10 p.m. on Aug. 22, 1970, a blast ripped through the women's restroom in the department store, blowing its door off the hinges and shattering two toilets. The bomb, hidden in a wastebasket, severely injured Peek, a 47-year-old high school teacher, who was combing her hair at a mirror.
    Believed to have come from a single stick of dynamite, the explosion sent shrapnel into her legs, arm, breast and abdomen. She later wrote a book, "An Awful Lightning," about her brush with death.
    "People ask me if I'm bitter," Peek, who was also a civil-rights activist, told the Pioneer Press a decade after the incident. "As if you could expect in our society to escape violence. ... That boy wasn't after me — he tried to make a statement."
    ...It had been a violent summer as the war in Vietnam raged on. Threats were made against several St. Paul businesses, and just five days before the Dayton's blast, the old Federal Building in Minneapolis had been bombed with 24 sticks of dynamite.
    Just three months before, in the Selby-Dale neighborhood, a sniper had slain police officer James Sackett.

  8. Gary Hogan, teenage bomber in St. Paul, dies | Star Tribune

    www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/101234669.html
    Gary Hogan, who was 15 when he set off a bomb in 1970 at Dayton's department store in St. Paul, has died in Washington, D.C. Hogan, who died May 24 at age 55, had ...

  9. Dayton Daily News - Gary Dale Hogan Jr. Obituary: View GaryHogan ...

    www.legacy.com/obituaries/dayton/obituary.aspx?pid=147086881
    HOGAN, Gary Dale Jr. departed this world on Dec. 6, 2010. He is survived by his mother 

  11. MinnPost - Man convicted of 1970 terrorist bombing at St. …

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    Gary Hogan — who was 16 when he set off a bomb in the downtown St. Paul Dayton'sstore in 1970 but went on to live a productive life after serving three years in ...

  12. The 1970 Dayton's bombing, still echoing - TwinCities.com

    www.twincities.com/crime/ci_15845574
    It was later revealed that an unknown telephone tipster had pointed the finger at the same boy, Gary Hogan, three days after the Dayton's explosion.

  13. The Bombing of Dayton's Department Store | The Streets of …

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    Gary Hogan was a 15-year old African American boy caught up in the militancy of the ... 1970s, daytons, gary hogan, mary peek, saint paul. Newer Post Older Post Home ...

  14. The Bombing of Dayton's Department Store « The Streets of …

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    Gary Hogan was a 15-year old African American boy caught up in the militancy of the time. ... Tagged as: 1970s, daytons, gary hogan, mary peek, saint paul. Get Updates.

  15. Dayton’s, Downtown St. Paul, Several Years After... |

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    Sixteen-year-old Gary Hogan, an admirer of the militant Black Panther movement, was eventually arrested and convicted of planting the bomb.
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