Government or official record
SurveyLA Citywide Historic Context Statement: Labor History, 1870–1980
Los Angeles Department of City Planning
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Where this source supports the record
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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 hereCity historic context for open-shop Los Angeles, the bombing, McNamara confessions, and effects on organized labor.
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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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