Wall Street Terror Attack

9/11 wasn’t the first terrorist attack on Wall Street in New York City.  From the FBI’s blog comes the story of September 16th, 1920 in which Italian Anarchists detonated an IED on Wall Street and killed 30 people and injured more than 300.

From the FBI here:

The lunch rush was just beginning as a non-descript man driving a cart pressed an old horse forward on a mid-September day in 1920. He stopped the animal and its heavy load in front of the U.S. Assay Office, across from the J. P. Morgan building in the heart of Wall Street. The driver got down and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Within minutes, the cart exploded into a hail of metal fragments—immediately killing more than 30 people and injuring some 300. The carnage was horrific, and the death toll kept rising as the day wore on and more victims succumbed.

Who was responsible? In the beginning it wasn’t obvious that the explosion was an intentional act of terrorism