Wall Street Bombing: A Horse Wagon Bomb Kills 38 Outside JP Morgan
Nobody was ever charged. A horse-drawn wagon packed with 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of iron window weights exploded at noon on September 16, 1920, directly in front of the J. P. Morgan building on Wall Street — killing 38 people instantly and wounding 400. Anarchist pamphlets were found nearby. The FBI investigated for decades. The case was never officially solved, though Italian anarchists were the primary suspects. The pockmarks from the explosion are still visible on the limestone facade of 23 Wall Street. They were never repaired — deliberately left as a memorial.
September 16, 1920
106 years ago
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