America’s 99-Year War Against Terrorist Bombers
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On Independence Day 1914, New York experienced a powerful dynamite explosion that killed four people and injured dozens.
As police investigated the scene -- a tenement house on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem -- they discovered the bodies of three notorious anarchists. Further searches unearthed bomb fragments, radical literature and evidence of a plot to assassinate John D. Rockefeller. The device had detonated prematurely, instantly killing its creators.