Close call for Iger. (bomb sent to Robert Iger, president of ABC Television Network Group) (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, May, 1994 by McClellan, Steve

Someone sent a bomb to Bob Iger last week. Placed in a package the size of a shirtbox and addressed to the ABC Television Network Group president, the bomb was delivered by UPS to ABC headquarters in New York last Wednesday (May 18).

The package was taken to Iger's 20th floor office at about 5 p.m. that day by a mailroom employe. The package aroused the suspicion of an executive assistant to Igor who began to open it. The police were called and the package was taken to bomb squad headquarters, where the bomb was defused.

Tests on the bomb were conducted Thursday night and results dispelled any notion that the incident could have been someone's idea of a practical joke. "The tests indicate that it was definitely a bomb," intended to do serious,...

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