At noon on September 16, 1920, a horse drawn buggy loaded with 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of cast- iron slugs exploded across the street from the J.P. Morgan bank headquarters in downtown Manhattan, New York.
The explosion blew out windows for blocks around, killed 30 immediately, injured hundreds of others and completely destroyed the interior of the Morgan building. The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States.
The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920s
