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Chancellor Chalmers, Governor Docking, and Colonel Albott Examining Summerfield Hall Destruction After Bombing, 1971

Description

On December 11, 1970 at 11:00 p.m. a bomb constructed from dynamite exploded in Summerfield Hall destroying an entire wall, metal doors, boxes of papers, etc. Debris from the blast littered Sunnyside Avenue. Though the bombing was invesitgated by the FBI, the case was never solved. The bombing was another incident in a string of fire bombings, shootings, and police-protester conflicts that took place throughout 1970 in Lawrence.

Details
Title
Chancellor Chalmers, Governor Docking, and Colonel Albott Examining Summerfield Hall Destruction After Bombing, 1971
Subject
Student activities
Student protests
Chalmers, Edwin Laurence, 1928-2009
Albott, William
Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983
Date
1971-01-17/23
Type
StillImage
Format
electronic
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Identifier
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-uaphotos/9249
ku-uaphotos:9249
Relation
University Archives
Coverage
1970s
Kansas--Lawrence
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