"On September 16, 1920, a cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan Bank, leaving 38 dead and hundreds more seriously injured in the nation's financial center. [This program] . . . tells the story of an early act of terror that remains unsolved today and sparked a bitter national debate about how far the government should go to protect the nation from acts of political violence [as well as launched the career of J. Edgar Hoover]"--OCLc.
General Note
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Based in part on the book The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror by Beverly Gage.
Originally produced as an episode of the television series American experience in 2018.