#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/08/2008

Bruce E. Ivins, a biodefense researcher is seen in 2003, at Fort Detrick, MD. Ivins, the scientist who was developing a vaccine to combat anthrax, died Tuesday, July 29th 2008, in an apparent suicide in a hospital in in Frederick, MD. U.S. prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty for Ivins in connection with mailings of the deadly anthrax toxin that killed five people.

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#2 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/09/2021 #12

In 2001, letters postmarked in Trenton, NJ, were sent to Sens. Thomas Andrew Daschle and Patrick Joseph Leahy; the letters later tested positive for #Anthrax. #TomDaschle #PatrickLeahy

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/18/2021 #11

In 2001, CBS News announced that an employee in anchorman Dan Rather’s office had tested positive for skin anthrax. 2001 anthrax attacks #Anthrax

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/20/2021 #12

In 2001, officials announced that anthrax had been discovered in a House postal facility on Capitol Hill. #Anthrax

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/23/2021 #10

In 2001, the nation’s anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center. #Anthrax

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/27/2021 #8

In 2001, in Washington, the search for deadly anthrax widened to thousands of businesses and thirty mail distribution centers. #Anthrax

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/16/2021 #9

In 2001, investigators found a letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Joseph Leahy, D-VT, containing anthrax; it was the second letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill. #PatrickLeahy #Anthrax

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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/21/2021 #8

In 2001, Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, CN, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system. #Anthrax

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