A Plane Bombed, 1955
Somehow I didn’t know about this piece of Denver/Longmont history until I saw it on Masoner’s blog. Check it out:
That afternoon, Graham drove [his mother, Daisie King] to the airport after stuffing 25 sticks of dynamite, two blasting caps and a timer in her suitcase.
He told King he had hidden a Christmas gift in the luggage.
The bomb pushed King’s luggage 37 pounds over the airline’s weight limit, for which she paid a $28 surcharge.
Before she boarded the plane, Graham purchased $37,500 in life insurance at a vending machine in the Stapleton Airfield terminal for $1.50.
Minutes later, Graham vomited while eating at a restaurant in the airport as he waited for the plane to depart.
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