[lit-ideas] What tangled webs does history weave
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:51:06 +0900
"The horse and wagon were blown to bits," wrote Paul Avrich, the
celebrated historian of US anarchism who uncovered the true story.
"Glass showered down from office windows, and awnings 12 stories above
the street burst into flames. People fled in terror as a great cloud
of dust enveloped the area. In Morgan's offices, Thomas Joyce of the
securities department fell dead on his desk amid a rubble of plaster
and walls. Outside, scores of bodies littered the streets."
That paragraph describes the prototype of the car bomb, a horsedrawn
wagon filled with dynamite and shrapnel, first used in NY City in the
wake of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial in 1919. It is taken from an article
by Mike Davis entitled "A History of the Car Bomb: Part 1, The Poor
Man's Air Force" in Asia Times:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HD13Aa01.html
It's a sobering piece to read.
John
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John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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