The Wall Street Bombing Of 1920 - September 16 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.9	A cup of murder.
0:15.0	Solving a case before certain technologies and agencies existed made things incredibly difficult.
0:23.3	On September 16th, 1920,
0:29.9	a history-making event took place in New York City, a case that remains unsolved and happened before the FBI even existed. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,
0:36.8	sit back and start your day with a morning
0:39.0	cup of murder.
0:40.8	On September 16, 1920 at 12.01 p.m., a non-descript man driving a cart led his horse forward and
0:49.4	directed it just in front of the USSA office.
0:53.5	Across from the J.P. Morgan building in the USS office. Across from the
0:54.3	JP Morgan building in the heart
0:56.1	of Wall Street, the financial
0:57.9	district's busiest corner and in the middle
1:00.1	of the lunch rush, the man
1:02.0	got off his cart, disappeared
1:04.1	easily into the bustling crowd,
1:06.6	and within minutes,
1:08.4	the wooden cart and whatever
1:10.3	was inside of it, exploded in a hail of debris and metal shrapnel.
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