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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.
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
The aftermath of the 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing also contributed to a widespread decline in unionization. The bombing, one of dozens of terrorist sabotage events nationwide organized by members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, killed 21 and injured over 100. The guilty verdicts "devastated the American ...
Born. 1882. Died. March 8, 1941. (1941-03-08) (aged 58–59) Known for. Los Angeles Times bombing. James B. McNamara (AKA J.B. McNamara or JB) (1882 – March 8, 1941) was a 20th-century American labor unionist, best known for his involvement in the McNamara Case as the bomber of the Los Angeles Times building.
Los Angeles Times bombing – The Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles was destroyed by dynamite, killing 21 workers. The bomb was apparently placed due to the paper's opposition to unionization in the city; [11] two labor organizers, the McNamara brothers, then pled guilty to escape a death sentence, receiving fifteen years and life in ...
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Rubble of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 1 October 1910 (United States) The Los Angeles Times bombing killed twenty people and destroyed the building. Calling it "the crime of the century," the newspaper's owner Harrison Gray Otis blamed the bombing on the unions, a charge denied by unionists.