Before 9/11: The Day Wall Street Exploded

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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At lunchtime on 16 September 1920, a horse drawn cart exploded on the busiest corner of the Financial District of New York. To find out more about the United States’ first age of terror, James spoke to Professor Beverly Gage. Beverly explains what we know about this attack on Wall Street. Who were its victims, suspects, and investigators and what impact did it have on American society? Beverly is a professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University and author of ‘The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror’.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and this is the History Here Warfare Podcast if it's your first time here
0:05.5	We are dedicated to bringing you histories that go back as far as Napoleonic battles and Cold War
0:10.8	Confrontations through to the Normandy landings and 9-11 and of course
0:16.3	we're approaching the 20th anniversary of 9-11 and we're preparing a special commemorative week on the podcast.
0:23.0	We're welcoming Joe Diqma, who was on the one hundred and fifth floor of Tower 2, and he takes
0:27.9	us through his personal experience of surviving 9-11 and escaping that tower. We're also joined by Jessica Delong, who provides a very different
0:36.2	perspective of that day. She served at Ground Zero, and she tells us what it was like to fight
0:41.2	those raging fires and to evacuate thousands of people by boat across the Hudson.
0:46.7	We're also joined by world leading experts on the history of terrorist hijackings and the history of terror attacks on New York going back to the 1920s.
0:55.2	For this episode I met with Professor Beverly Gage from Yale University
0:59.2	who is author of the day Wall Street exploded, a story of America in the first age of terror.
1:05.8	As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9-11, Beverly places those shocking surprise attacks
1:10.7	on the US into their historical context and she shows us
1:14.4	that New York has long been a target for terrorists so here she is
1:18.2	Professor Beverly Gage on the day Wall Street exploded. Hi Beverly, thank you so much for going on the history hit Warfare
1:39.1	podcast. Great to chat to you in actual person. This is a rare treat. How you doing today?
1:44.7	I'm doing great. It is rare. I think this is the first podcast or anything like it that I've done in a very long time
1:51.9	where I am sitting in the same room as the other person.
1:54.8	I know there's a bit of atmosphere you can probably hear a little bit of an echo if you're
1:58.7	listening at home. You might even be able to hear an ambulance or a fire engine go past. This is all the
2:03.8	good stuff layers and textures to our conversation. But we're talking about a very
2:07.7	different crisis today. One which I know you term America's first age of terror back in the 1920s a history that bears
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