McPhee Discusses Book on Boston Marathon Bombing
Michele McPhee, a Boston-based investigative journalist, discussed her new book, Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing, at a forum hosted by the Pardee School of Global Studies and the Metropolitan College’s Department of Applied Social Sciences on April 11, 2017.
Maximum Harm is not McPhee’s first time writing about terrorism. While working for the New York Daily News, McPhee wrote numerous articles about the September 11, 2001 attacks and their impact.
McPhee described the events of, and after, the Boston Marathon bombing, which she reported on from the bombing itself through the trial of Dzhokar Tsarnaev. She discussed the horrific nature of the attack, as well as how the attack directly impacted the Boston University community — Lingzhi Lu, a BU graduate student, was among those killed, and another BU student was badly wounded.
In her presentation, McPhee offered her theories on the bombing and answered student questions about the terrorist attack and subsequent investigation. Acknowledging that her views do not square with the official account of the event, she offered her explanation and relevant evidence for what she thinks transpired.
Pardee School Professor of the Pratice of International Relations John Woodward and Metropolitan Professors Robert Cadigan and Virginia Greiman attended the presentation and offered comments. Bruce Gellerman, an award-winning journalist with WBUR, also joined the event and provided his insight