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Part of the problem--at least in Womack's case--lies in the University's failure to conduct background checks on new employees. And if Harvard had looked into Womack's past, they might have discovered that he had a decade-long history of mutilating books--most notably at the Lexington Public Library, where he shredded hundreds of them...
...dear readers, just any books. These were rare books, focusing mostly on church history, literature and organic chemistry. And for eighteen months, between 1990 and 1992, Stephen L. Womack allegedly used a knife and his hands to rip out pages from each book's spine...
...just this senseless act of destruction that is so disturbing. More alarming is the fact that while Womack was allegedly wreaking havoc in Widener Library, he was doing it all on the University's payroll...
That's right. Womack was a University employee, more specifically, a Harvard library employee. Which meant he could spend many a blissful hour shredding pages and plunging his knife into dusty tomes without anyone raising a questioning eyebrow at his presence...
...Womack, who is also a part-time student at Northeastern, stole from their Library book collection, allegedly tried to extort money from the school, and also threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money were not left for him at Widener Library. In addition, he sent anonymous letters to Widener Library and Northeastern's Snell Library saying that if they did not fire their Jewish employees, he would bomb their buildings...