Jim Leach, the NEH, and Dinner with Terrorists?

“Blood was all over.” It “was heaviest where police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell suffered mortal wounds to his neck, eyes, face, and brain.” So reported officer Jim Pera, first at the scene on that February day in 1970 when a bomb shredded San Francisco’s Park Police Station, killing McDonnell, a 45-five-year-old father of two, and wounding eight others.

The bomb was filled with barbed-wire-fencepost staples, an ingredient used when the intent is to kill or maim as many as possible. The perpetrators have yet to face justice.