Bomb Me Elmo

NPR

Published January 1, 1997 at 11:00 PM EST

Robert talks with Mark Johnson-Williams, one of the designers of the Tickle Me Elmo toy. Johnson-Williams tells how the FBI investigated him for 6 months as one of the UNABOMBER suspects.

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