The World - News from May 5, 1985
A Montreal jury found a Rochester, N.Y., man guilty of first-degree murder in the 1983 Labor Day bombing of the Canadian city’s train station that left three people dead and 47 injured. Thomas B. Brigham, 65, was sentenced to life in prison. The blast came just one week before Pope John Paul II was to visit the city. At the time, authorities received a note--which Brigham admitted writing--that called for “the end of the unholy Vatican.”
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