Birth of the FBI's
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On April 25, 2003 the new FBI Laboratory Division's facility was officially
opened with a dedication ceremony in Quantico, Virginia. The "Bureau of
Investigation's" "Criminology Laboratory" was created on November 24,
1932 in the Old Southern Railway at 13th Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. Today, over seventy years after the FBI
Laboratory was first created, relocation to a new, state-of-the-art facility
is complete. Hear more about the history of the FBI Laboratory and its
new technological capabilities in an interview with Assistant Director
Dwight Adams. You can even take a look at some of the technology it houses
and discover some of the amazing secrets of forensic science through a
pictorial view of the facility itself.
Photographs of the Dedication:
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"Behind every case is a victim - man, woman, or
child - and the people who care for them. We dedicate our efforts
and the new FBI Laboratory building to those victims." |
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This is equipment in the Chemistry Unit. |
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Some items from the Centennial Park Bombing. |
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This is equipment found in the Chemistry Unit. |
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These are hazardous materials suits. |
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This is equipment used in the analysis of trace evidence. |
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The "Helder Mailbox Bomb". |
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These are items from the "UNABOMB" display. |
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This is not blood, but dye from an exploding dye pack
detonated during a bank robbery after the suspect placed the money
down his pants. |
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