Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
Two devices concealed in backpacks detonate about twelve seconds apart near the finish line on Boylston Street at roughly 2.50 pm, during the 117th running. Three spectators are killed — Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell and Lu Lingzi — and more than 260 people are injured. The attack targets the place where a city gathers to watch strangers finish, and the security architecture of every mass marathon since has been rebuilt around it.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Boston Marathon · route · United States
- Boston · city · United States
- The mass-participation city marathon · cultural practice · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Boston Marathon Bombing — case record
Two devices detonated about twelve seconds apart near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street on 15 April 2013, killing three spectators and injuring more than 260 people. V55 verification basis: read through attributed search summaries of the FBI case page and Britannica; the FBI page was not retrieved.
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 2013 · Partly verified
https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/boston-marathon-bombing
Recorded on Boston Marathon
- The first Boston Marathon
- Boston lengthens its course and moves the start to Hopkinton
- Women run Boston, unofficially and then officially
- New York goes to five boroughs
- The first London Marathon
- The World Marathon Majors series is announced
- The first Tokyo Marathon
- Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
- The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race
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- The World Marathon Majors series is announced · 2006-01-23
- The first London Marathon · 1981-03-29
- New York goes to five boroughs · 1976
- Women run Boston, unofficially and then officially · 1966–1972
- Boston lengthens its course and moves the start to Hopkinton · 1924
- The first Boston Marathon · 1897-04-19