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At 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn wagon exploded outside J.P. Morgan & Co. on Wall Street, killing 38 people and injuring 143. The bomb was packed with metal window weights that turned the blast into a deadly storm of shrapnel—and the perpetrator was never identified 900X563

At 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn wagon exploded outside J.P. Morgan & Co. on Wall Street, killing 38 people and injuring 143. The bomb was packed with metal window weights that turned the blast into a deadly storm of shrapnel—and the perpetrator was never identified 900X563

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