1. 1920’s
A Look Into the Past
• Speakers on for Paul Whiteman’s
Orchestra Playing Their 3 Million Seller
and Runner Up Hit in 1923, “Three
O’clock in the Morning”
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2. The Wall Street bombing was an incident that occurred at 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York
City. Thirty-eight were killed and 400 people were injured by the blast.
A horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds. The wagon then stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P.
Morgan bank on the financial districts busiest corner. Inside, 100 pounds of dynamite with 500 pounds of heavy, cast-iron sash
weights exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the slugs tearing through the air. The horse and wagon were blasted into small
fragment.
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• A small group if Italian
Anarchists were suspected but
were never charged due to lack
of evidence. Their motive was
revenge for the deportation and
jailing of some of their group.
• The bombing caused renewed
investigation into the activities
and movement of foreign
radicals, stimulating the
development of the U.S. Justice
Department’s General
Intelligence Division of the
Bureau of Investigation
(forerunner of the FBI).
• One of the Directors
assistants, a fast-rising young
civil servant named John
Hoover, was put in charge of
assembling all information
possible about radical groups
throughout the United States.
3. Vintage RV - William Downer Auto Home, Gospel Car No. 1
4. Washington, D.C., 1921. Whistle Car - A Truck Filled
With Whistle, the Beverage Wrapped in Bottles
29. The February 14, 1929 Valentine's Day Massacre was ordered by Al Capone to eliminate competition from
George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang because they were encroaching on his territory. Capone delegated the
job to his murderous henchman, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and headed to his home in Miami to establish his
alibi. Mcgurn baited the Moran gang with the promise of a shipment of smuggled alcohol at a price too good to
pass up. The delivery was to take place at a garage at 2122 North Clark Street that Moran used to conduct his
business. McGurn distanced himself from the activities of that day by staying away and bringing in hit men from
the Detroit gang to carry out the executions. Moran himself was late getting to the garage and fled when he saw
the executioners, some dressed as police officers, entering the garage. Although he escaped, the damage was
done. Moran lost power and eventually control of the North Side.
• Moran's men were lined up
against the wall and the hit
men opened up with two
Thompson submachine
guns, backed up by pistols
and shotguns. Six men died
immediately and one
survived till he got to the
hospital in spite of 22 bullet
wounds, even reviving briefly
before dying. True to the
gangsters' code, though, he
went to his grave without
squealing. "I'm not gonna
talk. Nobody shot me," he
said before expiring.
