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Samuel Joseph Melville (born Samuel Joseph Grossman 1934 – September 13 1971) was the principal conspirator and bomb setter in the 1969 bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City. Melville cited his opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism as the motivation for the bombings. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to bombing the Federal Office Building in lower Manhattan as well as to assaulting a marshal in a failed escape attempt.