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| Los Angeles Times bombing | |
|---|---|
 Rubble of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 | |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 34°03′10″N 118°14′42″W / 34.05284°N 118.24500°W |
| Date | October 1, 1910 1:07 a.m. |
| Target | Los Angeles Times Building |
Attack type | Time bombing, arson |
| Weapons | Dynamite |
| Deaths | 21 |
| Injured | 100+ |
| Perpetrators | John J. McNamara James B. McNamara |
The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, United States, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers (IW). The explosion started a fire which killed 21 occupants and injured 100 more. It was termed the "crime of the century" by the Los Angeles Times newspaper, which occupied the building.
Brothers John J. ("J.J.") and James Barnabas ("J.B.") McNamara were arrested in April 1911 for the bombing. Their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labor movement. J.B. admitted to setting the explosive, and was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. J.J. was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for bombing a local iron manufacturing plant, and returned to the IW as an organizer.
The Times bombing shocked Americans and remains both one of the deadliest criminal acts in U.S. history[1] and the deadliest crime to go to trial in California.[2]
- ^ McCann, Joseph T. (2006). Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten. Sentient Publications. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-59181-049-0.
- ^ Irwin, Lew (2013). Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror. Rowman & Littlefield. p. x. ISBN 978-0-7627-9524-6.
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