Tracks about the Nashville bombing include haunting Petula Clark songs, location questions

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) – Now that investigators have confirmed that Nashville bomber Anthony Warner died in the Christmas Day explosion, his attention is turned to the “why.”

Why would anyone commit such an atrocious act?

Researchers have been examining hundreds, even thousands, of clues, trying to answer the question.

A possible clue, which potentially hinted at Warner’s mental state, came when police revealed Sunday morning that a disturbing caravan song full of Warner explosives was playing before the blast.

This song, Petula Clark’s “Downtown” recording in 1964, has a melancholy tone.

“When you’re alone and life makes you feel alone, you can always go downtown,” the song begins.

“When you have worries, all the noise and rush seems to help, I knew, in the city center.”

The song is also sung in celebration of a Vietnam bombing that occurred in the 1991 war film Flight of the Intruder.

But questions have also increasingly focused on the location of the center the bomber chose, right in front of an AT&T change station.

The explosion severely damaged the facility and caused telephone and Internet service over a wide area.

On CBS Face the nation, Nashville Mayor John Cooper suggested Sunday that the AT&T facility itself could have been the target.

“For all of us locally, there seems to be some connection to the AT&T facilities and the bombing site,” Cooper said.

The phone giant was criticized five years ago for its role in helping the United States spy on the Internet, a role revealed by leaked documents from Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency.

But Tennessee security commissioner Jeff Long had also recently warned about the violence associated with savage conspiracy theories that blamed 5G mobile technology for spreading COVID-19.

“There are some people who believe that the 5G network is somehow connected to the coronavirus,” Long said during budget hearings before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.

“They’ve caused the destruction of some of the 5G Tower sites. We’ve had several in the Memphis area and a few others. And we’ve had three Tennessee Highway patrol towers that have been vandalized.”

The researchers confirmed that this is one of the areas they are exploring.

In May, U.S. Homeland Security warned: “We are assessing conspiracy theories that link the spread of COVID-19 to the expansion of the 5G cell network that incites attacks on communications infrastructure globally and that these threats are likely to increase as the disease continues to spread, including calls for violence against telecommunications workers. “

One conspiracy theory that has emerged since the bombing is that the AT&T building contained voting machines that could change the outcome of the presidential election.

There is no evidence that this is true.

So far no public manifesto has appeared that gives us a definitive view of Warner’s intentions.