LibGuides: Primary Sources: Terrorism: 1980s

Online Sources: 1980s - Terrorism

Blast on TWA Jet Kills 4
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Four Americans were killed and nine persons, including five Americans, were injured today in an explosion apparently caused by a bomb aboard a TWA Boeing 727 airliner en route from Rome to Athens.
Bush Confirms Death of Hostage William Buckley (pdf)
Ceremony for return of TWA Flight 847 hostages, Arrival of some of the thirty nine hostages.
Compilation - TWA Flight 847 Hijacking, Press Articles
Director of Central Intelligence, NIE 6-86, The Likelihood of Nuclear Acts by Terrorist Groups, April 1986, Secret, excised copy
Document - Hijacking, June 17, 1985, Transcript (TWA Flight 847 Hijacking)
Document - Hijacking, June 18, 1985, Transcript (TWA Flight 847 Hijacking)
Document - Hijacking, June 19, 1985, Transcript (TWA Flight 847 Hijacking)
Document - Hijacking, June 20, 1985, Transcript (TWA Flight 847 Hijacking )
Frozen in Time (Documentary)
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Greek police make arrest in 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVER MISSION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS ORGANIZATION, DR. HANS KOECHLER, AT THE SCOTTISH COURT IN THE NETHERLANDS ("LOCKERBIE COURT")
Klinghoffer Family Papers
Klinghoffer v. SNC Achille Lauro, 795 F. Supp. 112 (S.D.N.Y. 1992)
Pan Am Flight 103 Terrorist Suspect in Custody for 1988 Bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives (Syracuse University)
Pan Am Lockerbie, December 21, 1988, Accident Report (pdf)
President Reagan's radio address on the bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Oval Office
President Reagan’s Press Briefing on the Achille Lauro Hijacking on October 11, 1985
President Ronald Reagan's Speech to the Nation on the Release of TWA Hostage
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Reagan on Hijacking of TWA Flight 847
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"On June 14, 1985, a TWA jetliner en route from Athens to Rome was hijacked by armed Shiite terrorists who ordered that the aircraft be flown to Beirut, where the plane was held for 17 days with hostages on board. On day four of the situation, after one of the American hostages was killed, President Ronald Reagan held a news conference to bring the nation up to date."
Remarks by President Ronald Reagan while greeting passengers of TWA flight 847. Aboard TWA Plane at Andrews AFB, Maryland
Remembering Pan Am Flight 103: 30 Years Later (Video, from the FBI)
SENATOR LEAHY/ACHILLE LAURO'S HIJACKING (CIA FOIA )
Terrorist Incidents, Reagan Administration
Topic Guide - Terrorism (Reagan Administration)
Vice President’s Task Force On Combating Terrorism (Reagan Administration)
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Terrorist Bombing of Trans World Airlines Flight 840
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"Note: Larry M. Speakes read the statement to reporters at 10:35 a.m. in the Cantina Room at the Sheraton Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA. The explosion occurred at 6:25 a.m. e.s.t. while the airplane was en route from Rome to Athens."

Newspapers

Tip: Newspapers from the 1980s can be a good place to find primary source articles about terrorist events at the time they happened.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
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Includes Historical Issues from: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Coverage dates vary by paper.
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Newspapers

Book Sources: 1980s - Terrorism

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Off campus access instructions (for e-books)

Den of Lions by Terry A. Anderson
Call Number: DS87.2.A53 A3 1993
ISBN: 0517593017
Encyclopedia of World Terrorism by Frank G. Shanty; John Lalla; Ray Picquet
Call Number: HV6431 .E53 2003
ISBN: 1563248077
The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History by John P. Grant
Call Number: HV6431 .L63 2004
ISBN: 0379215128
Terrorism (Great Speeches in History Series) by Deborah A. Miller (Editor)
Call Number: HV6431 .T4568 2003
ISBN: 0737718722
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner
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Call Number: Online - GVRL
ISBN: 9781414406213

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