The day they bombed Wall Street: the forgotten terror of 1920

On the block where it happened, there were no "we will never forget" speeches, no candles or bronze plaques bolted to the wall that has never been repaired. All that was there yesterday was the noontime crowd, swirling by with lunch to be gulped, errands to be run and an afternoon of work waiting to be done. In other words, no one was paying much attention.

That was pretty much what the noontime crowd was doing on Sept. 16, 1920 — 83 years ago yesterday — when a bomb exploded there. And that was why, after the dead had been taken to the morgue and the injured to hospitals on that Thursday afternoon, there were so many descriptions of the bomb-laden cart that had been parked beneath a window of the J. P. Morgan & Company bank headquarters at 23 Wall Street.

More that 30 were killed by the cart bomb; the culprits were never identified. From the NY Times.

Posted by David on September 17, 2003 8:42 PM