Shekanda Peoples@ShekandaPeoples
U.S. Terrorism Events:
1969
December 3, 1969 (New York, NY): An assault on the Syrian Mission to the United Nations in New York City.
December 29, 1969 (New York, NY): JDL operatives violently raided the Manhattan offices of the Tass Soviet News Agency, physically assaulting staff and destroying teletype machines.
December 31, 1969 (New York, NY): Coordinated vandalism and takeover actions against Soviet property in Manhattan and a Soviet airliner at Kennedy Airport.
1970
The 1970 Greenwich Village Townhouse Explosion: WUO members were accidentally killed when a nail bomb they were constructing inside a New York townhouse prematurely detonated. Among the dead was Ted Gold, a young Jewish student activist turned radical militant.
May 22, 1970 (New York, NY): JDL members stormed the Manhattan offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) information bureau, severely beating director Saadat Hasan.
May & November 1970 (New York, NY): Double armed takeover of the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan to disrupt the Soviet U.N. Mission across the street.
June 19, 1970 (New York, NY): JDL operatives carried out a violent office invasion of the National Council of Churches, assaulting staff and destroying files.
June 22, 1970 (New York, NY): A group of JDL members violently raided the offices of the Jewish Peace Fellowship in New York, assaulting the peace activists inside and destroying anti-war literature because the group opposed military action.
September 27, 1970 (Glen Cove, NY): JDL members planted a bomb at the Soviet Residential Compound in Glen Cove, New York. The explosive device was discovered and safely defused by police shortly before it was scheduled to detonate.
October 5, 1970 (New York, NY): A pipe bomb detonated outside the Soviet Trade Mission (Amtorg) building, shattering the facility’s lower façade.
November 20, 1970 (New York, NY): A smoke bomb was detonated by JDL agents inside Carnegie Hall to disrupt a performance by the visiting Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
November 25, 1970 (New York, NY): A pipe bomb explosion at the Manhattan offices of the Soviet airline Aeroflot and its travel agency, Intourist.
December 20, 1970 (Westport, CT): JDL members coordinated the firebombing of a local manufacturing plant holding commercial export contracts with the Soviet government.
1971
January 8, 1971 (Washington, D.C.): A pre-dawn bombing outside a Soviet cultural building in Washington, D.C.
January 26, 1972 (New York, NY): The fatal firebombing of the Manhattan office of cultural impresario Sol Hurok, who was managing a tour of Soviet performers. The blast killed receptionist Iris Kones and injured 12 others. (Note: Date confirmed as 1972 in source material.)
April 26, 1971 (New York, NY): A pipe bomb exploded at the Amtorg Trading Corporation annex on Lexington Avenue, destroying office infrastructure.
May 1, 1971 (Washington, D.C.): JDL operatives poured real animal blood over a visiting Soviet cultural attaché during a formal diplomatic reception.
May 12, 1971 (New York, NY): An incendiary device exploded outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations garage, destroying two diplomatic vehicles.
August 10, 1971 (New York, NY): A JDL arson team set fire to the offices of Aero-Flot Travel Agency in downtown Manhattan.
September 1971: JDL founder Meir Kahane and several top leaders were convicted in a federal court for conspiracy to violate federal firearms laws. The charges stemmed from a plot involving the illegal transportation of dynamite, bombs, and automatic weapons across state lines.
October 20, 1971 (Glen Cove, NY): Four rifle rounds were fired from a high-powered rifle into the windows of the Soviet UN Mission’s weekend estate, narrowly missing children inside.
December 14, 1971 (New York, NY): JDL members detonated a pipe bomb at the commercial offices of Sovexportfilm, an enterprise importing Soviet cinematic releases.