Joel Sternfeld On this Site - Landscape in Memorium RUIN Joel Sternfeld On this Site - Landscape in Memorium

was dumped into the river and ignited other pollutants. The Cuyahoga River burned for more than an hour on June 22, 1969, after molten slag from a steel mill was dumped into the river and ignited other pollutants. Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1994

David Gelernter, director of computer studies at Yale University and an advocate of the joining of computer sciences with the humanities, was maimed when a packaged bomb exploded in his fifth floor office in Watson Hall on June 24, 1993. Since 1978, at least three people associated with advanced technology have been killed and twenty-three others injured by bombs sent and placed by a person known as the Unabomber, whose writings express a hatred of technology and fear of its global effects. In April 1996, the FBI arrested Theodore Kaczynski at his isolated cabin in the mountains of Montana with the belief that he was responsible for these crimes. Arthur Watson Hall, 5t Prospect Street, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 1995

200 Northwest 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, December 1995 The most lethal act of terrorism in U.S. history occurred here on April 19, 1995. The nine-story Alfred Murrah Federal Building housed seventeen government agencies and a day-care center. At 9:02 A.M., a truck containing more than two tons of fertilizer and fuel oil exploded next to the building, killing 168 people, 15 of them small children. At least 600 others were injured in the blast. The FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the bombing. McVeigh, a former Army sergeant, and Nichols, a former member of a paramilitary group know as the Michigan Militia, had spoken about their desire to seek revenge for the attack by the United States Government on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, which had occurred two years earlier. Both men pleaded not guilty. 200 Northwest 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, December 1995