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\ ITED STATES DEPARTMENT 0: ,USTICE FEDERAL BUREAT OF INVESTIGATION THREAT TO BOMB GIBES JUNIOR COLLEGE FOR NEGROES, ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, MARCH 14, 1960 ha faculty member, Gibbs Junior College for Negroes, had reported on the morning of March 14, 1960, a threat to bomb the school had been received during the week of March 7, 1960. The threat, by anonymous telephone call, was to e effect that the achool would be bombed if Mrs, FILE ANOR OOSEVELT made wid Le ae Fee? a hl We at 0d bet Ne Tad nas ix < i, Pte a oh et at hal Sort i ob Get Wl we g a scheduled public appearance at the @ school March 14, 1960. | CREE ev 1000 Mrs. ROOSEVELT was to “ Sf appear as speaker at a lyceum series sponsored by the — school on that date. No previous ne eels threat had been given to the Police Department hed Asalavad an lone in nat saw a wr oe nd ww awe mbd eaayvww the threat. | cemrreerrrs advised Mrs. ROOSEVELT was being afforded a personal escort by the Police Department during the afternoon and evening of March 14, 1960. The auditorium building was searched by a department bomb svecialist and placed under police guard. No publicity was afforded this action by the Department. did not explain why he oo tke Police depart nt wee cnent iw oO At 8:00 P.M. March 1h, 1960, the Police Departuent . received two anonymous calls, from a male and a female caller, that a bomb had been placed in the auditorium prior to Mrs. ROOSEVELT s speech. A search disclosed no evidence of a bomb. , B7- 8-aAP-AY7