Deadly 1939 World’s Fair Bomb Remains Unsolved: Lewis Lapham
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New York City detectives Joe Lynch and Freddy Socha were assigned to the Bomb and Forgery Squad just before the opening of the 1939 World’s Fair.
They’d investigated bomb threats and a series of explosions in the city, none deadly. As a quarter of a million people jammed into the fairgrounds to celebrate the 1940 July 4th holiday, that was about to change.