1998 — Jan 29, Violence, Terrorism, Abortion Clinic Bombing, Birmingham, AL — 1

–1  CNN. “Eric Robert Rudolph Fast Facts.” 9-14-2015.

–1  NYT (Rick Bragg). “Bomb Kill Guard at an Alabama Abortion Clinic.” 1-30-1998.

–1  Pence. “Eric…Rudolph: The losses he caused…Birmingham bombing.” AL.com, 1-29-2015.

–1  WP (Baker). “Blast at Alabama Abortion Clinic Kills a Policeman, Injures Nurse. 1-30-1998.

 

Narrative Information

 

CNN: “January 29, 1998 – A bomb hidden beneath a shrub explodes at the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. Robert Sanderson, a 35-year-old off-duty police officer working as a security guard, is killed. Nurse Emily Lyons, 41, is seriously injured. In his 2005 plea agreement, Rudolph admits that he detonated the bomb by remote control, as Sanderson stood over it.” (CNN. “Eric Robert Rudolph Fast Facts.” 9-14-2015.)

 

Jan 30, NYT: “Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 29 — In what is believed to be the first fatal bombing of an abortion clinic in the United States, an off-duty police officer was killed and a nurse critically wounded in a blast early today at a clinic on Birmingham’s south side. The explosion at the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic, long a target of protesters, went off at about 7:30 A.M., just as the clinic was opening, said the city’s police chief, W.M. Coppage.

 

“The bomb, believed to have been a small homemade device planted somewhere just outside the front of the clinic, killed Robert D. Sanderson, 35, an eight-year police veteran who was working part time as a guard at the clinic. The blast also badly injured Emily Lyons, a 41-year-old nurse who was opening the clinic. Ms. Lyons, in surgery all day today, was wounded in one eye and her face, and both legs were seriously injured….” (NYT (Rick Bragg). “Bomb Kill Guard at an Alabama Abortion Clinic.” 1-30-1998.)

 

Sources

 

CNN. “Eric Robert Rudolph Fast Facts.” 9-14-2015. Accessed 1-18-2016 at: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/us/eric-robert-rudolph—fast-facts/

 

New York Times (Rick Bragg). “Bomb Kill Guard at an Alabama Abortion Clinic.” 1-30-1998. Accessed 1-18-2016 at: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/30/us/bomb-kills-guard-at-an-alabama-abortion-clinic.html

 

Pence, Gregory. “Eric Robert Rudolph: The losses he caused and those who narrowly escaped the Birmingham bombing.” AL.com, 1-29-2015. Accessed 1-18-2016 at: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/01/memories_of_eric_rudolph_the_l.html

 

Washington Post (Donald P. Baker). “Blast at Alabama Abortion Clinic Kills a Policeman, Injures Nurse. 1-30-1998. Accessed 1-18-2016 at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/abortviolence/stories/atlanta2.htm