September 16, 1920
- Horse-drawn wagon, filled with explosives, suddenly detonated
near subtreasury; flames flooded Wall Street, shot up
nearly six-stories; blast shattered windows around area; killed
300 people, wounded hundred more; only famous financial figure
to be injured was Junius Spencer, J.P. Morgan's grandson, who
suffered a slight gash on one hand.
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United States; Stock exchanges -- United States -- History --
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headquarters of J. P. Morgan at 23 Wall Street (38 killed, 143
injured); worst terrorist attack on American soil until Oklahoma
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perpetrators spread as far as Italy, new Soviet nation; history
of homegrown terrorism that shaped American society century ago.
September 16, 1920 - Explosion at 23 Wall (at left)
(http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/september/wallstreet091707a.jpg)
John Kenneth Galbraith with a new introduction
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