9-16-1920 Wall Street Bombing~Psyguy

The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York City. The blast killed 38 and seriously injured 143. It was more deadly than the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. It was the deadliest bomb attack on U.S. soil until the Bath School bombings in Michigan seven years later. Like the 1919 United States anarchist bombings, the Wall Street bombing may have been perpetrated by a Galleanist.

At noon, a wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street in New York City and stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street, on the Financial District's busiest corner. Inside, 100 pounds (45 kg) of dynamite with 500 pounds (230 kg) of heavy, cast-iron sash weights exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the slugs tearing through the air. The horse and wagon were blasted into small fragments.

The 38 victims, most of whom died within moments of the blast, were mostly young and worked as messengers, stenographers, clerks and brokers. Many of the wounded suffered severe injuries. The bomb caused over $2 million in property damage and wrecked most of the interior spaces of the Morgan building.

The Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (BOI) did not immediately conclude that the bomb was an act of terrorism. The number of innocent people killed and the lack of a specific target, other than buildings that suffered relatively superficial, non-structural damage, left investigators puzzled. Exploring the possibility of an accident, police contacted businesses that sold and transported explosives.[6] By 3:30 pm, the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange had met and decided to open for business the next day. Crews cleaned up the area overnight to allow for business to operate normally the next day, but in doing so they destroyed physical evidence that might have helped police investigators solve the crime.[7] The local assistant district attorney's noted that the timing and location were too precise for the explosion to have been an accident, and given the target, he suspected Bolsheviks, anarchists, communists, or socialists.[8]

However, focus soon shifted to radical groups opposed to the U.S. government and the capitalism. Authorities noted that the Wall Street bomb was detonated in a public place, and used shrapnel to increase casualties among financial workers and institutions during the busy lunch hour. Officials eventually blamed anarchists and communists. The Washington Post went so far as to call the bombing an "act of war." The Sons of the American Revolution had previously scheduled a rally on September 17 in celebration of Constitution Day at the same intersection. Thousands attended in a show of patriotism and in defiance of the previous day's attack.[10]

The bombing caused renewed investigation into the activities and movements of foreign radicals, stimulating the development of the U.S. Justice Department's General Intelligence Division of the Bureau of Investigation (forerunner of the FBI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

here is a whole list of domestic terrorism in the unites states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#1900-1959

It's interesting to see how radical people were even 100 years ago.

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