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It==Background==[[Image:LadiesCenterBombing.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Ladies Center]] following the [[June 25]] bombing.]]Goldsby and Simmons had already committed an abortion clinic bombing that year, destroying the [[Ladies Center]] with a pipe bomb on [[June 25]], [[1984]]. They had detonated the bomb in the early morning hours, before employees had arrived, so there were no injuries. The damage, estimated at more than $200,000, forced the Ladies Center to relocate to a new office on [[Ninth Avenue]], which opened on [[August 13]]. No arrests were made in the June bombing, which Goldsby and Simmons took as a sign of divine approval and began plotting to destroy the Ladies Center's about time somenoe wrote about thisnew location.
A '''trio of anti-abortion bombings''' took place on [[December 25|Christmas Day]], [[1984]]. The attacks, planned under the code-name "'''Gideon Project'''," were perpetrated by [[Matt Goldsby]] and [[Jimmy Simmons]], two 21-year-old members of the [[First Assembly of God]] congregation, as well as Goldsby's fiancee [[Kaye Wiggins]] and Simmons's wife [[Kathy Simmons|Kathy]], both 18. They targeted the [[Ladies Center]] abortion clinic and two offices of OB/GYN doctors who performed occasional abortions.
==Christmas bombings==
