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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is craig floyd. Im the chairman and ceo of National Officers memorial fund. I want to welcome you all here today to the museums witness to history, investigating the unabomber, the tenth in our series of witness events. Generously sponsored by our friends from target, who join us here in the front row, as well as in partnership today with the museum, our host. Ill turn things over to john maynard in just a moment from the museum for moderation of todays event. I want to thank you all for coming. Today is a glorious day outside. The fact you would want to spend an hour or two here with us thats extra special. And i thank you for taking the time to join us. I think youre in for just a fascinating discussion here in just a moment. I[i also want to thank our friends from cspan who tend to cover many of these witness to history events. Theyre with us once again today. Theyll be sharing this on air over the coming weeks. For those of you who may
This is a map of new england by john smith in 1616. This is yales copy that was done in 1631. I want to pause for a moment and tell you about this map and explain what makes it so important and what makes it so valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thought that it needed a snappier name so he came up with the name new england and john smith was actually the person who coined that term as a way to claim this territory for his home country and sort of tell the other countries, you know, this is english territory. And he also wanted to claim this territory for himself and make sure that he got credit for discovering it and that he was going to be i
Some of it is the way someone approach that. When gary walked up, you had the inclination to reach to the edge you moved it slightly, it exploded and the force went in a different direction. The final two bombs did result in deaths. They did. Thomas muller sure was an advertising executive in caldwell, new jersey. He got one of those in the mail. It was a week or two before christmas, and little kids were running around the kitchen. They were getting ready to go get a christmas tree. The mom called them at the last minute. Mr. Mosher had been out of town. The kids went to get their pajamas off and get ready to go, and there was a of mail that stacked up. The first thing he took was this package that had a San Francisco return address on it. His wife heard this terrible noise and by the time she got down towards the kitchen there was smoke everywhere. This was so powerful in this videocassette container, that it had shrapnel, when it went off they had those copper skillets above this st