(In 1975, he firebombed John F. Kennedy's birthplace in Brookline, Mass., to protest Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's support for enforced school busing, spray-painting the sidewalk in front of the house with the slogan "Bus Teddy").. It's a terrific book — comprehensive, deeply reported, invested with an understanding of place and character, and the subtle, at times pernicious, ways they interact.
A furniture store he opened was firebombed and looted during riots in 1968.
His house was firebombed, he was stabbed in the chest, and jailed over 20 times.
At the Air Force Office of Statistical Control, where he worked in 1943-45, he counted the firebombing sorties made by the B-29s, at what height, with what percentage hits on target (58% of Yokohama, 51% of Tokyo).
Almost two years ago, he and an accomplice were caught after they firebombed a Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Ore.
Natale eventually got pinched while helping out in the battle to seize casino rackets in Atlantic City and went to prison for 16 years—he was convicted of firebombing and cocaine offenses.
The student, who was not identified because he is a minor, admitted that he had brought the explosive to school and told police officers that he had additional firebombs at his home, the officials said.
George Stergiakis, another cinema owner, said his property was firebombed after he refused a demand for protection money.
In 1721 Cotton Mather's house had been firebombed because he supported inoculation, a method that might indicate "a distrust of God's overruling care," as another minister put it.
When an unknown arsonist firebombed the shop, he rebuilt it, and he persisted even after being shot, stabbed and robbed in separate incidents.
Still, he said, the firebombing had a chilling effect.
