"Red Record of Failure and of Innocent Victims"
Newspaper article
By: William L. Chenery
Date: September 19, 1920
Source: "Red Record of Failure and of Innocent Victims" as published by the New York Times.
About the Author: William L. Chenery was a reporter for the New York Times during the 1920s.
INTRODUCTION
Throughout 1919 and 1920, anarchists featured in news reports as the United States found itself gripped by fears of radical terrorism. Anarchist terrorists detonated a bomb that exploded in the heart of New York's financial district at Broad and Wall Streets on September 16, 1920. The bomb killed 28 people and injured more than 200. The victims were mostly low-paid secretaries and clerks, not the...
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