1882–1942

Thomas Mooney

A labor activist whose conviction in the Preparedness Day bombing case became a long-running evidence and due-process controversy.

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Defendant and labor activist

The Preparedness Day Bombing and the Mooney Case

At 2:06 p.m. on 22 July 1916, a suitcase bomb exploded beside San Francisco's enormous Preparedness Day parade, killing ten people and wounding about forty. Labor activists Thomas Mooney and Warren K. …

22 July 1916 · West side of Steuart Street just south of Market Street