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It is thursday
september 16th
1920.
Olympic games in antwerp belgium we're just closed four days ago and US
airmail begun its service last week.
It's eight o'clock in the morning
JP Morgan lets first people to go into the bank.
We are about to be witnesses of event that will directly change life
of more than five
hundred people and indirectly change a life
of everybody in the entire nation.
Galleanist are about to strike.
Wall street bombing of 1920
Horse-drawn vagon with one hundred pounds of dynamite, passed by lunchtime crowds,
stopped across the street
from the HQ of the JP morgan bank
on the financial district's busiest corner.
Minutes later a huge explosion shakes the home of the new york stock exchange
in Lower Manhattan.
The bomb caused more than two million dollars in property damage
twenty three million dollars inflation
and destroyed most of the interior
spaces of Morgan building.
38 families just lost one of their loved members,
most of whom died within moments from the blast.
143 people were seriously injured
and about four hundred people
had to be transported to the hospital.
This is the deadliest act of terrorism
on the US soil up to this point
since bombing of Los Angeles Times building in 1910.
Non of the victims turned out to be the driver of the vagon.
Official sources distinguished revenge for arrest of
Sacco and Vanzetti,
two anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during armed robbery
in south Braintree, Massachusetts
as a very possible motive of the bombing.
Authorities believed that their fellow Galleanist and anarchists in the US could
have begun campaign of violent retaliation
Soviets and communists were also evaluated as possible masterminds of the wall street bombing.
The bureau of investigation and local police investigated the case for
over three years without success.
Who was later blamed in particular was Mario Buda. 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 ***, who is alleged by some historians, to be a man
to most likely to have planted the bomb
Buda was well experienced in the use of dynamite and other explosives and was
known to use weights as a shrapnels in his time bombs. He was believed to have
constructed several of the largest package bombs for the Galleanist.
Buda was in New York City at the time of the bombing, but he was never arrested nor
questioned by police.
Very shortly after the bombing buda left the United States and promptly
sales for Naples.
By November he was back in his native Italy and never returned to the United States.