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John Birges Sr. (born János Birgés) [4] was a Hungarian immigrant to the US, settling in Clovis, California. He claimed to later biographers he flew for the Luftwaffe during World War II, during which time he provided intelligence to the United States. He was captured and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor in the Soviet gulag.
The bomb was placed by John Birges, a heavily in-debt Fresno landscaper who had lost at least $1 million at casinos in Stateline and was hoping to extort $3 million from the bomb threat. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, where he died from liver cancer in 1996.
John K. Burgess (c. 1863 –1941), member of the Great and General Court John P. Burgess (born 1948), professor of philosophy at Princeton University John S. Burgess (1920–2007), Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
The hotel and casino were damaged on August 27, 1980, when a bomb planted by terrorist and extortionist John Birges across the street in Harveys Lake Tahoe exploded, destroying the neighboring casino. Harrah's, which was connected to Harvey's via a tunnel, suffered damage from the explosion, mostly from shattered windows.
John William Burgess (August 26, 1844 – January 13, 1931) was an American political scientist. He spent most of his career at Columbia University where he in 1880 created the first graduate school in Political Science. [ 1 ]
The series covered the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas, the investigation and conviction of John Gotti, the Unabomber case, the World Trade Center Bombing, the Sara Tokars murder case, the several prison escapes by Christopher Jeburk, John Birges's biggest bomb in history (Harvey's Casino in Stateline, Nevada), The murder of Christina Long ...
John Burges (Burgess) (1563–1635) was an English clergyman and physician. He held nuanced reformist views on the vexed questions of the time, on clerical dress and church ceremonies. He held nuanced reformist views on the vexed questions of the time, on clerical dress and church ceremonies.
John Birges (born 1922), Mastermind of Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing; June Bingham Birge (born 1919), American author and playwright; Birge Clark (born 1893), American architect; Raymond Thayer Birge (born 1887), American physicist; Edward Bailey Birge (born 1868), American music educator; L. Birge Harrison (born 1854), American genre and ...