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Boston GlobeThursday, 23 April 2026
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A forgotten blast, a painful reminder
Loss of leg haunts victim of courthouse bombing 50 years ago
The paper uses a 50th-anniversary milestone to re-examine a local historical trauma, focusing on the enduring personal cost to a single survivor rather than the politics of the original event.
In 1976, a bombing at the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston injured nearly two dozen people amid intense racial tensions over school desegregation. Fifty years later, the event has largely faded from public memory, prompting a retrospective look at the lasting physical and emotional impact on survivors.
“Loss of leg haunts victim”
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