Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the Apr
Anarchist trial defendants Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right)
.32 Savage Model 1907 semi-automatic pistol
Norfolk County Courthouse, Dedham, Massachusetts, site of the second trial
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight later died of wounds that they sus
Sacco and Vanzetti
…in the United States and abroad began a campaign of violent retaliation. Two days later, on September 16, 1920, Mario Buda allegedly orchestrated the Wall Street bombing, where a time-delay dynamite bomb packed with heavy iron sash-weights in a horse-drawn cart exploded, killing 40 people and wounding 134. In 1921, a…
The aftermath of the explosion. Federal Hall National Memorial is at the right.
Cover of The New York Times reporting on the Wall Street bombing.
Captioned "Dead in front of [J.P.] Morgan's [bank]", taken on the day of the bombing
Remnants of the damage from the 1920 bombing are still visible on 23 Wall Street.