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Los Angeles Times Bombing (1910): Topics in Chronicling America
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Historic crimes & investigations · 1 October 1910Open File evidence →
The 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing
Former Los Angeles Times Building at First Street and Broadway · United States
Why editors use it hereInstitutional overview and primary-newspaper guide for the exact time, location, deaths, arrests, pleas, and federal conspiracy case.
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At 1:07 a.m.
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Trigger and conditions
James McNamara placed a timed suitcase bomb in Ink Alley beside the Times building, near printing supplies and gas lines.
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Uncertainty
The accepted institutional count is twenty-one deaths, though some older accounts use different totals.
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Why it matters
The twenty-one victims were workers killed at their jobs, even though the target was an antiunion institution.
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