The Bomb
The mastermind of the extortion plot, John Birges, and his hired henchmen, Willis "Bill" Brown and Terry Lee Hall, delivered his home-made, 1,000-pound bomb to Harvey's Resort Hotel on the morning of June 26, 1980. Disguised as an IBM copy machine, the device was rolled across the hotel lobby, up the elevator, and down a corridor in the second-floor office area.