514 - Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino Bombing

Early in the morning of the 26th of August 1980, employees at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino discovered a mysterious metallic box. With the mysterious package was a note, explaining is was a bomb! Thus begins the story of 'one of history’s most bizarre extortion plots'!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 6:59 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://magazine.atavist.com/2014/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

https://www.recordcourier.com/news/crime/40-years-ago-tahoe-casino-bombing-was-biggest-in-u-s-history/

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Harveys-Hotel-Lake-Tahoe-bombing-17392736.php

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/august/a-byte-out-of-history-harveys-casino-bomb/the-extortion-note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGo959uECTM

Bringing Down the House: The Bombing of Harvey's Casino

https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/harveys-casino-resorts

https://tahoequarterly.com/summer-2013/the-man-behind-the-bomb

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