Terror Attacks : From the Zealots to Bin Laden (True Crime) by Anne Williams, Vivian Head
Authors: Anne Williams, Vivian Head
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and one which risked his political career. John Peter Altgeld simply said he was doing what he thought was right, and that he fought for the underdog, won, and paid the price of what sometimes comes with justice. He was criticized and hated by many for what he did.
On May 4, 1889, the city of Chicago erected a monument of a police officer in Haymarket Square. For many years the police were seen as the victims of the riot, but with the formation of the labour unions opinions started to change. The statue was defaced in the 1960s, blown up twice, repaired, and finally it was moved to the Chicago Police Training Academy.
A second monument was erected in German Waldheim Cemetery, Illinois, and it depicts Justice preparing to draw a sword while placing a laurel wreath on the brow of a fallen worker. At the base of the statue are the final words of August Spies just before his execution:
The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.
On the other hand, the inscription below the monument of the police officer reads:
In the name of the people I command peace.
But somehow peace has not been very forthcoming since its dedication in 1889.
Part Three: 1900–1969
The Los Angeles Times Bombing
‘Sons of Duty,’ they were defenders of Industrial Freedom under Law. When they died they were exercising their inalienable and constitutional rights as American citizens, empowered to labour freely, without menace and without fear, in the performance of their duty to themselves, their families, their journal and their kind.
Inscription on the monument to the victims of ‘the crime of the century’
The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, and is the second largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States. The paper was first published on December 4, 1881, under the name Los Angeles Daily Times, but the company was soon experiencing major financial difficulties.
Its saviour was Colonel Harrison Gray Otis, a former Union Army lieutenant. As soon as he heard that the newest Los Angeles newspaper was for sale, he headed for the city. He managed to scrape together $6,000 and bought a quarter interest in 1882, and the Mirror Company, who printed the paper, gave him the job as Editor. In October 1882, Otis and his family moved from Santa Barbara in California and established a home in Los Angeles, and for a weekly salary of $15, Otis wrote the editorials and much of the local news. His wife Eliza contributed columns about women, morals and religion.
Otis soon turned the newspaper’s fortunes around and made it a financial success. In 1884 he bought out the remaining three-quarters of the newspaper, and also the printing company, and formed the Times-Mirror Company.
Otis was a powerful man who hated unions, and he was a staunch Republican. This was often reflected in the paper’s contents, both in the news and editorial pages, and because of his views he made many enemies along the way.
R ETRIBUTION
On October 1, 1910, a bomb exploded by the side of the Los Angeles Times building. The force of the blast weakened the second floor of the three-storey building, which caused it to collapse on top of the office workers below. Fire quickly spread throughout the building, and by the time the fire services managed to get the flames under control, 21 of the newspaper’s workers had been killed and many more seriously wounded. One of the survivors said, ‘Frames and timbers flew in all directions. The force of the thing was indescribable’. Many of the employees had tried to escape the flames by jumping out of the windows without any safety nets to catch them. At the end of the day all that was left of the Los Angeles Times building was a pile of smouldering debris.
Another bomb exploded, this time at
On May 4, 1889, the city of Chicago erected a monument of a police officer in Haymarket Square. For many years the police were seen as the victims of the riot, but with the formation of the labour unions opinions started to change. The statue was defaced in the 1960s, blown up twice, repaired, and finally it was moved to the Chicago Police Training Academy.
A second monument was erected in German Waldheim Cemetery, Illinois, and it depicts Justice preparing to draw a sword while placing a laurel wreath on the brow of a fallen worker. At the base of the statue are the final words of August Spies just before his execution:
The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.
On the other hand, the inscription below the monument of the police officer reads:
In the name of the people I command peace.
But somehow peace has not been very forthcoming since its dedication in 1889.
Part Three: 1900–1969
The Los Angeles Times Bombing
‘Sons of Duty,’ they were defenders of Industrial Freedom under Law. When they died they were exercising their inalienable and constitutional rights as American citizens, empowered to labour freely, without menace and without fear, in the performance of their duty to themselves, their families, their journal and their kind.
Inscription on the monument to the victims of ‘the crime of the century’
The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, and is the second largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States. The paper was first published on December 4, 1881, under the name Los Angeles Daily Times, but the company was soon experiencing major financial difficulties.
Its saviour was Colonel Harrison Gray Otis, a former Union Army lieutenant. As soon as he heard that the newest Los Angeles newspaper was for sale, he headed for the city. He managed to scrape together $6,000 and bought a quarter interest in 1882, and the Mirror Company, who printed the paper, gave him the job as Editor. In October 1882, Otis and his family moved from Santa Barbara in California and established a home in Los Angeles, and for a weekly salary of $15, Otis wrote the editorials and much of the local news. His wife Eliza contributed columns about women, morals and religion.
Otis soon turned the newspaper’s fortunes around and made it a financial success. In 1884 he bought out the remaining three-quarters of the newspaper, and also the printing company, and formed the Times-Mirror Company.
Otis was a powerful man who hated unions, and he was a staunch Republican. This was often reflected in the paper’s contents, both in the news and editorial pages, and because of his views he made many enemies along the way.
R ETRIBUTION
On October 1, 1910, a bomb exploded by the side of the Los Angeles Times building. The force of the blast weakened the second floor of the three-storey building, which caused it to collapse on top of the office workers below. Fire quickly spread throughout the building, and by the time the fire services managed to get the flames under control, 21 of the newspaper’s workers had been killed and many more seriously wounded. One of the survivors said, ‘Frames and timbers flew in all directions. The force of the thing was indescribable’. Many of the employees had tried to escape the flames by jumping out of the windows without any safety nets to catch them. At the end of the day all that was left of the Los Angeles Times building was a pile of smouldering debris.
Another bomb exploded, this time at
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