Terrorism in the United States
1960–69

Terrorism in the United States

Section Title: 1960–69
Table Section Text: None

#	Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator

48	November 22, 1963	Assassination, shooting	2	2	Texas Dallas, Texas	Assassination of John F. Kennedy: U.S.	Lee Harvey Oswald

49	June 16, 1964	Burning	0	0	Neshoba County, Mississippi	Mt. Zion Baptist Church was burned as part of a campaign to stop integration and the civil rights movement.	KKK

50	June 21, 1964	Murder	3	0	Philadelphia, Mississippi	Michael (Mickey) Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were detained by police then abducted and murdered for their work with CORE.	KKK

51	April 1968	Hostage-taking	0	0	Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut	Students at Trinity College hold the board of trustees captive until their demands were met.	Trinity College students

52	April 4, 1968	Assassination, shooting	1	0	Memphis, Tennessee	Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.	James Earl Ray, anti-communist and white supremacist.

53	April 23–30, 1968	Hostage-taking	0	0	New York (state) New York City	During a student rebellion at New York's Columbia University members of the New Left organization Students for a Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a dean hostage, demanding an end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.	Students for a Democratic Society Student Afro-American Society

54	June 5, 1968	Assassination, shooting	1	5	California Los Angeles, California	Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Senator Robert F.	Sirhan Sirhan

55	November 1968	Hostage taking	0	0	California Los Angeles, California	Officials of San Fernando State College held at knife point by students.	San Fernando State College students

56	January 1, 1969 – April 15, 1970	Widespread violence	Unknown	Unknown	United States	8200 Bombings, attempted bombings and bomb threats attributed to "campus disturbances and student unrest"	University students across America, many members of Students for a Democratic Society

57	February 1969	Bombing	0	1	California Claremont, California	Secretary at Pomona College severely injured by bomb.	Left-wing student radicals

58	March 1969	Bombing	0	0 (+1)	California San Francisco, California	Student critically injured while attempting to bomb a San Francisco State College classroom.	Left-wing student radical

59	August 20, 1969	Bombing	0	20	New York (state) New York City	Twenty were injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City.	Sam Melville

60	September 18, 1969	Bombing	0	0	New York (state) New York City	The Federal Building in New York City was bombed by radical leftist Jane Alpert.	Jane Alpert

61	October 7, 1969	Bombing	0	0	New York (state) New York City	Fifth floor of the Armed Forces Induction Center in New York City was devastated by explosion attributed to radical leftist Jane Alpert.	Jane Alpert

62	November 12, 1969	Bombing	0	0	New York (state) New York City	A bomb was detonated in the Manhattan Criminal Court building in New York City. Jane Alpert, Sam Melville, and 3 other militant radical leftists are arrested hours later.	Jane Alpert, Sam Melville and others

Sentence(s)

On September 18, 1969, The Federal Building in New York City was bombed by radical leftist Jane Alpert.

final_sentence: On September 18, 1969, The Federal Building in New York City was bombed by radical leftist Jane Alpert.