Boston Marathon hero Carlos Arredondo donated his iconic cowboy hat to Washington D.C.’s National Crime Museum for a new terrorism exhibit scheduled to open on Wednesday.
Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph over Terror co-authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge will be on hand as featured speakers for the opening of the new exhibit, “Domestic Terrorism and Hate Crimes.” Sherman and Wedge are expected to discuss exclusive details in their book, as well as the ongoing death penalty trial of surviving Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The co-authors will also formally present Arredondo’s now-famous hat to the museum.
Other notable artifacts to be displayed include:
- A rifle confiscated from the Virginia Jihad Network in 2003, after their failed attempt to train assassins at the Paintball War Games facility in Spotsylvania, VA
- Unabomber letters
- World Trade Center rubble and other 9/11 artifacts
- The bust recreation of prisoner Vinson Harris, who was suffocated and killed by prison security guards in 1986, while serving a 20-year sentence for bank robbery. The bust was used at the trial to visually illustrate to the court how Harris had been suffocated with elastic bandages and duct tape.
A key figure in Boston Strong, Arredondo will be forever immortalized in city lore as the man in the cowboy hat who saved Jeff Bauman‘s life after twin bombs rocked the Marathon finish line, on April 15, 2013. Bauman lost both legs in the bombing.
