The Harvey's Casino Bombing of 1980

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1980 a bomb containing 1,000 pounds of dynamite was quietly delivered to Harvey’s, a casino and resort at Lake Tahoe. This kicked off a whirlwind caper that lasted 30 hours and ended up nearly demolishing the 11-story resort.

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0:48.4	The true crime addition where nobody gets hurt, isn't that amazing?
0:52.0	Yeah, I think this falls into our sort of caper edition.
0:56.4	Yes, well put.
0:58.2	Well put.
0:59.2	Editions.
1:00.2	Do we have any other capers?
1:01.2	Yeah, like the Chalchilla Kidnapping and I think any non-murder crime podcast I think
1:06.8	would fall under this.
1:07.9	Like DB Cooper.
1:08.9	Exactly.
1:09.9	And before I forget Chuck, that was definitely a caper, good call.
1:15.9	This was a request, which like you said last time we've been doing a lot of these lately,
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