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[somedaybitch]

and you just thought the guy looked cool on a tshirt.

In November 1962, the FBI uncovered a terrorist plot - the targets were Macy's, Gimbels, Bloomingdale's and Grand Central Terminal. Five hundred kilos of TNT were slated to go off in those places the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year. When the FBI cracked the plot, they discovered that the people involved were with the Cuban mission to the United Nations working in cahoots with the New York chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Can you imagine the carnage? It would have made 9/11 look pretty tame. And that case was reported in the New York Times, November 27, 1962.

There was another plot, in 1964, when Che Guevara was actually visiting New York. He was fine-tuning a plot put into place by some black radicals, a group that considered the Black Panthers to be Uncle Toms. They had visited Cuba and had met with Che, and in 1964, he was meeting with them in New York. They were fine-tuning plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, among other landmarks.