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Exploding luggage on Balboa Street and the black hand. Detail of car explosion on Balboa Street near 15th Avenue, July 31, 1927. - Jesse B. Cook Collection, UC Berkeley
Terrorism in the Richmond District in 1927
WNP member Paul Rosenberg did some research on a 1927 explosion on Balboa Street near 15th Avenue. Jesse Brown Cook began as a San Francisco police officer and worked his way up to police chief (1908-1910) and, later, served on the police commission. His collection of photographs from 1895 to 1936 at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library runs to about 8,000 images and about half are digitized and available online. I found this example of terrorism in the Richmond District around the time of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions on August 22, 1927.
Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
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