1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press
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The 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press was an attack in which two firebombs were thrown at the offices of a weekly newspaper, the Riverdale Press, in the Riverdale community of the Bronx, New York City on Feb. 28, 1989.[1][2] The building was heavily damaged.
The bombing took place shortly after the newspaper published an editorial defending Salman Rushdie during the controversy over The Satanic Verses.[3]
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|date=(help) - ↑ John C. Nerone (1994). Violence against the press: policing the public sphere in U.S. history. Oxford University Press. p. 204.
- ↑ SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN (May 30, 2009). "Two Rabbis Find They're Separated Only by Doctrine". p. A17.
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