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
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.
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
Wall Street bombing
…the work of either Italian anarchists or Italian terrorists." One Galleanist in particular, Italian anarchist Mario Buda (1884–1963), an associate of Sacco and Vanzetti and the owner of a car which led to the arrest of the latter for a separate robbery and murder, is alleged by some historians, including Paul Avrich…
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