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Crimes of the Centuries

S4 Ep7: The Pro-Union Bombing of the Los Angeles Times

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of nationwide bombings that pit union backers against anti-union bosses, an explosion at the Los Angeles Times building crossed a line that changed everything. At 1:07 a.m. on Oct. 1, 1910, a blast tore through the Times building, killing 21 people. Times officials immediately blamed organized labor, which ultimately bore out: Not only were three union-affiliated co-conspirators convicted soon after the bombing, but nearly 40 other union officials would eventually be convicted on charges related to that and other bombings that had been plaguing the country.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get started with today's episode a quick shout out to my friend Jack

0:05.8

Greiner who was the lawyer who helped vet all of the scripts I wrote from my

0:09.8

other podcast accused. Griner's a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan, so he and fellow Stan Randy Freaking have launched a

0:17.3

podcast called We Love Our Team.

0:20.1

Each week Randy and Jack interview Reds fans about their allegiance to baseball's first professional team.

0:25.9

Guests have included sports analyst Kirk Herb Strike,

0:28.7

former E-SPN anchor Betsy Ross, and Cincinnati Mayor Aftab- Pureval. Their guests share stories and memories about their

0:35.8

Red's fandom. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even earn the label Crime of the Century.

0:57.0

But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.

1:05.2

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,

1:07.4

and in each episode of this show,

1:09.4

I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today but was huge when it happened.

1:16.4

This is crimes to be one of those episodes which after you hear it you're going to wonder why you've never heard

1:34.4

about this crime. More specifically you'll wonder why you never learned in

1:38.8

American history class about this chapter of a long-term campaign of domestic terrorism that

1:44.7

damn near started a second civil war. How it included likely more than 200 bombings

1:50.3

across the nation, many nasty public confrontations, death and maiming, as well as almost

1:56.8

ruining the great Clarence Darrow, a decade before he could go on to work on the Leopolden-Lobe

2:02.1

case and fight for science during the Scopes Monkey

2:04.9

trial. You will wonder how this one escaped you. But I'll tell you what I wonder. How the

2:11.1

hell did the highest profile and deadliest bombing during that campaign,

2:16.4

the one that brought much of the ongoing strife to a close, get forensically solved in an era where it took three days to get anywhere by train.

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