Incident Date:
April 21, 1963 22:45
Incident Successful:
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Television Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/21/1963: Gloucester-Nepean police received a warning at about 10:45 p.m. that there was a bomb in the CJOH television studios. Staff were briefly evacuated but no bomb was found. Two weeks earlier a similar warning, involving the Towers store, had been received."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 352"
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