Incident Date:
August1965
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Amherstburg, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Arson/Fire)
Organization Type: Supremacist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Religious Figures/Institutions(Places of Worship)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "08/00/1965: A cross was burned on the main street of Amherstburg, Ontario. The First Baptist Church (black) was desecrated with printing at the entrance: ""Niggers Beware--the Klan is coming"" Two weeks later attempts were made to burn the church down (This incident refers to the church burning)."
References: 1) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 132"
2) RWVIC p. 16
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