death_date death_place birth_place conviction_penalty charge name parents birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation
september 13 , 1971 1934 attica , new york , usa tonawanda , new york , usa 18 years in prison conspiracy , explosives samuel melville dorothy and william 1934 ruth sam melville
 samuel joseph grossman draftsman
sam melville

samuel joseph melville -lrb- born samuel joseph grossman , 1934 -- september 13 , 1971 -rrb- , was the principal conspirator and bomb setter in the 1969 bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in new york city .
melville cited his opposition to the vietnam war and u.s. imperialism as the motivation for the bombings .
he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to bombing the federal office building in lower manhattan , as well as to assaulting a marshal in a failed escape attempt .
a key figure in the 1971 attica prison riots , he was shot and killed when the uprising was put down by force .
