Groom Mine mill bombing event
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Richard M. Bissell Jr.person · 1Sheahanfamily · 1U.S. federal governmentorganization · 1Area 51place · 1Groom Mine eminent domain seizureevent · 1
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U.S. federal government covered_up
Groom Mine mill bombing guest_asserted
“She had already made it where we could not use the fact that our mill was bombed by them because that would so infuriate a jury that they would give us a lot of money.…”
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▶ 27:16
Yes. Right on. Yes. And his father was also in the insurance company in Hartford. They were from Connecticut, supposedly. And he had the goods on who had fire insurance and who did not, which came in very handy when our mill was bombed. Bec…
▶ 27:45
of 1954. It was literally bombed. They dropped a bomb from a plane, and they'll try to say, oh, or an errant wing tank. No. It bullseyed the processing plant. Bullseye. Perfect. And it blew things. It first exploded, and the sheet metal and…
▶ 28:14
Some of the heavy equipment used to process the ore. And then it burned. So what time frame was this? This was in 1954, June 23rd. Okay. And there was still no Area 51 yet. There was no base. So where these airplanes came from, you know, yo…
▶ 31:26
We didn't run off. We tried to stand our ground. But, you know, that didn't work out so well. Well, I guess it did because here we are. So now we've got 1954, 1955. And they bombed the mill that was used to process the ore out of the mine. …
▶ 1:02:19
We couldn't use any of it. She had already made it where we could not use the fact that our mill was bombed by them because that would so infuriate a jury that they would give us a lot of money. Right. You can't have that. So she just kept …
▶ 1:35:45
You know, if you climb that mountain, you've got to be able to get back down. Nobody's coming to save your ass. No, nobody is. We built our own roads. We fixed our own machinery. We did everything on our own. We didn't have people come in. …