Devastation on Wall Street
Bolshevist, Anarchist Terrorists Accused of Wall Street Bombing
Photograph
By: Unknown
Date: September, 1920
Source: Photograph showing bomb damage to Wall Street from a 1920 bomb attack.
About the Photographer: The photographer is unknown.
INTRODUCTION
Just after noon on September 16, 1920, a powerful dynamite bomb exploded in New York City's financial district on Wall Street near the intersection with Broad Street. Until the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Wall Street bombing was the most devastating terrorist attack in U.S. history.
The bomb, which detonated just as the lunch hour was beginning, was carried in a horse-drawn cart. In the cart were hundreds of pounds of iron window-sash weights that acted as...
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