AM 1240 WJON » kimball post office bombing http://wjon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Kimball Post Office Bombed – On 'This Date In Central Minnesota History' http://wjon.com/kimball-post-office-bombed-on-this-date-in-central-minnesota-history/ http://wjon.com/kimball-post-office-bombed-on-this-date-in-central-minnesota-history/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 05:29:25 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=15109 It was a quiet spring morning when an explosion disrupted the small town of Kimball, Minnesota on May 13th, 1976. The explosion came from the Kimball Post Office where assistant postmaster Ivend Holen was sorting the morning’s mail. Though the ambulance was fast to the scene, the 60-year-old father of 10 died on the way to the hospital.

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]]> http://wjon.com/kimball-post-office-bombed-on-this-date-in-central-minnesota-history/feed/ 0 A 1970s photo of main street Kimball (Stearns History Museum)