Nebraska State Fair officials hope people across the state participate in their "tree bombing'' contest. Entering the store, the newspaper reported that at least one and possibly more firebombs were exploded in the store. John Duprey’s house at 6066 Buckingham Avenue was bombed on April 7, 1972. On the 18th of the month, one of the thousands of bombs launched by the Japanese into the jet stream over the United States, one of them reached Omaha. I also learned the different names and euphemisms for bombs, including explosives, incendiary devices, firebombs, dynamite, pipe bombs, and Molotov cocktails, as well as pop can bombs, grenades, smoke bombs and sulphur bombs. Poindexter has made a request for commutation of sentence. “At first I thought it was a woman because the legs were uncovered. Little was out of town when his house was attacked with flames and a firebomb. William F. Rigge used shadows in pictures to prove Erdman’s innocence. The 1930s were a time of dramatic crimes and terrible violence throughout Omaha. These experimental weapons brought the Second World War closer to home than most Americans realized. They included Louis’s Barbershop at 3706 North 16th; Ray C. Clinkenbead’s house at 3059 Huntington Avenue; and the Crosstown Loan at 1819 North 24th. can get really ugly; Components for these devices appear to be readily attainable or improvisable; There are short rashes of bombs, then nothing for long periods of time; Criminals, including mobsters and gangsters and robbers, etc., suck; Teenage boys shouldn’t try to make bombs for the fun of it. Share This Page. Suddenly labelled domestic terrorism, the media began labeling bombs as “incendiary devices” and the police became more strategic about addressing bomb threats, using specially trained bomb squads and saftey equipment to protect their officers as never before. The cigar war struck manufacturers and stores citywide. There had been previous bomb scares at Eppley, including in 1963 and 1968, and bomb scares since, but apparently none have been as dramatic as this one. Omaha continues to have a racial divide on the fiftieth anniversary of that sad day in 1970. The Safeway at North 30th and weber was open into the early 1980’s. A two-year-old girl hit by a vehicle pulling into a driveway on Saturday afternoon has died, according to the Council Bluffs Police Department. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Keeping quiet was a way to help the United States win the war. Of these bombings, four were directed at police facilities with extensive damage.”, “Any assistance rendered along the lines mentioned above would greatly enhance the prestige of the FBI among law enforcement representatives in this area, and I thus strongly recommend that the request be favorably considered.”, “In view of the foregoing, it is requested that the FBI Laboratory examine enclosed tape recording and make an appropriate voice print to be retained for comparison against other tape recordings of suspects to be submitted at a later date.”. All rights reserved. Carmello Cacci was arrested in Deadwood, South Dakota, as the shipper of the dynamite. That year, the Omaha World-Herald and the Omaha Bee reported that “Irish confetti” (bricks) rained down on policemen as they struggled to stop striking streetcar workers from causing serious destruction to individual cars, managers’ homes, the offices and shops of Omaha’s streetcar company. Word spread and everyone knew about it. Bell’s Cigar Store at 100 South 15th Street was demolished by a bomb at 3:30am on July 9, 1938. Whether or not this is absolutely true is hard to know without access to first-person interviews and other primary sources. 1145, 30 November 2018 https://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1145/poindexter.html. One of the most interesting bombings in Omaha struck in April 1945. That case was unsolved. Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by DeprestBGA, Mar 11, 2018. ( Log Out /  The most famous bombing of the last 45 years happened on August 17, 1970, at 2867 Ohio Street. In April of that year, gang violence led to more firebombing. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Moore said one of the FBI agents told the group that a key informer reported that two white males were observed running from the scene shortly before the blast.”. "It seems impossible. Today, there’s a plaque commemorating the occasion in Dundee. See a lot of writers on the freights now, think a few have an in to a certain yard and that’s how they’re always flicking. "Kids are kids. ( Log Out /  Tweet. Grew up watching NME spread in Omaha and the LV, had a homie that would run with em but ended up in jail and haven’t heard from em. Strikes continued, more damage was had and reportedly, hundreds of people were wounded. But by the next morning, nearly everyone in the Dundee neighborhood knew something had happened. The Census helps determine billion of dollars for everything from roads to Medicaid. On March 1, 1977, the Nebraska Legislature repealed part of the 1973 abortion law that required fathers’ consent to abortions after the United States Supreme Court declared that type of law unconstitutional. In west Omaha, on February 17, 2001 several young people demolished a house under construction at 1808 North 138th Street.