Woman wants to mark husband's FALN bomb death in '75

The Record of Hackensack ^ | 10.13.03

[Coleus]

Woman wants to mark husband's '75 bomb death

Tuesday, October 7, 2003 By CHARLES AUSTIN STAFF WRITER

Mary Connor-Tully put a plaque in Saddle River Park in memory of her husband, Frank Connor, who was killed in the 1975 bombing at the Fraunces Tavern, and her nephew Steven Schlag, who died in 9/11 World Trade Center attack.

FAIR LAWN

The terrorist attack in lower Manhattan killed her banker husband and changed her life forever. A grief-stricken Mary Connor pulled herself together and pondered how best to bring up her sons, Thomas, 11, and Joseph, 9. The year was 1975.

Frank Connor, 33, died on Jan. 24 of that year when a bomb ripped apart the historic Fraunces Tavern, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. A Puerto Rican nationalist group - the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion de National Puertoriqueña (FALN) - claimed responsibility for the bombing.

It was a time of terror in New York City that has faded from most people's memory. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a string of bombings, robberies, and armed attacks in New York and Chicago killed six people and injured more than 70 others.

Frank Connor's widow says she tried to put aside her grief 28 years ago so she could focus on her sons, Joe and Tom. Both are grown now, married and, like their father, working in the financial industry in lower Manhattan.

As the town where they began their family considers a memorial to the three Fair Lawn residents who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, Frank Connor's widow - who has remarried and is known as Mary Connor-Tully - believes that Frank's name should be included.

"It would be nice for my grandchildren," she said. "They know their grandfather was killed, but it would be nice for them to go to the monument."

Honoring her late husband would also remind people how many Americans have been killed or injured in terrorist attacks over a long period of time, she said.

Town officials still have not finalized plans for the 9/11 memorial but agree that Connor should somehow be honored. Tentative discussion has centered on a memorial garden, featuring a plaque with the names of Sept. 11 victims Susan Huie, Jennifer Lynn Kane, and Richard Rosenthal near the municipal building. Jane Spindel, chair of the Fair Lawn Garden Committee, which is designing the memorial, said including Connor's name somewhere in the garden "is the right thing to do."

THE FRAUNCES TAVERN BOMBING

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• Jan. 24, 1975, in lower Manhattan .

• Four killed, including Frank Connor, 33, of Fair Lawn. More than 50 injured, including three other Bergen County residents
• The FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion de National Puertoriqueña) claimed responsibility. No one was ever charged with the bombing.

• In the 1970s and 1980s, FALN activists were reportedly involved in dozens of bombings, robberies, and other criminal acts that killed six people and injured more than 70 others.

• Sixteen FALN members, convicted and imprisoned for their part in the terrorist acts, were offered clemency by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Eleven were released from jail.

[Coleus]

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Sixteen FALN members, convicted and imprisoned for their part in the terrorist acts, were offered clemency by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Eleven were released from jail.

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[nutmeg]

Sixteen FALN members, convicted and imprisoned for their part in the terrorist acts, were offered clemency by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Eleven were released from jail.

[Bigg Red]

Yet more of the Clinton legacy.

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BUMP

[Coleus]

Eleven were released from jail. >>

what a legacy.

[listenhillary]

Bump - 9/11 commission. Did ya MISS THIS??? Who was advising Clinton on terrorism?????

FALN a Threat, Reno Says
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1999/102199c.htm

Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/olson.htm

Presidential Pardon
http://grassley.senate.gov/won/1999/wo909-20.htm

[monocle]

I vividly remember that bombing as walked by Fraunces Tavern within minutes after the bombing and saw injured people on the sidewalk. I was appalled when Clinton pardoned these beasts.