Attempted Burglary Foiled at NMNH
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PrintAt 8:45 a.m., Leonard E. Manning, a former employee of the National Air and Space Museum shops, armed with an automatic pistol, attempts to steal over $2,500 in cash and checks from the National Museum of Natural History shop. The shop manager pressed the security alarm, the Museum security force secured the doors, and Manning was apprehended with a brown bag and pockets stuffed with money. Manning had been a clerk with Smithsonian Museum Shops for one year, but had his employment terminated in August 1981.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," November 1981, p. 3.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 19, 1981