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25 Photographs of the History of the FBI, Part 2: World War I, Espionage, and the Red Scare

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Aftermath of the 1920 Wall Street bombing. Slate

Lenin in Color. Pinterest
Lenin (far right) at a Bolshevik meeting. Reddit
Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov Lenin in Sverdlov Square Bolshevik rally, Moscow 5 May 1920. Trotsky stands at bottom of steps. haikudeck
A meeting in Blagoveschenskya Square in 1917, at the start of the Russian Revolution. Daily Mail
Workers demonstrating in Kharkov during the period of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
Luigi Galleani, head of the Anarchist movement. Libcom
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer home after bombing. Legends of America
The September 16 Wall Street bomb killed 38 people and a horse. Wikipedia
1920 Wall Street Bombing. Slate
The aftermath of the September 16, 1920 Wall Street bombing. Photo- Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph. Smithsonian
38 people and one horse were killed. Hundreds were injured, some by shrapnel on the street, others by the glass that rained down from the broken windows of the J.P. Morgan building. Slate

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