Bruce Edwards Ivins was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, and
Ivins at a USAMRIID awards ceremony, 2003
Ivins at a science fair, from the 1963 yearbook of Lebanon High School in Ohio
Ivins as a high school senior, 1964
FBI photo of Ivins' office at USAMRIID, where the breach allegedly occurred
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax, occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters con
Bruce Edwards Ivins
…Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the person identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Ivins died on July 29, 2008, of an overdose of acetaminophen mixed with codeine in an apparent suicide after learning that criminal charges were likely…
Laboratory technician holding an anthrax-laced letter sent to Senator Patrick Leahy
The Tom Brokaw (NBC) note
Envelope addressed to Senator Thomas Daschle, postmarked October 9, 2001