Podcasts · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
· 45 min · S3 E12 · Bonus
Episode The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales returns next week, but in the meantime enjoy a story of disaster from The Bowery Boys Podcast.
It's July 30th 1916, just after 2am, and a massive explosion rips apart the munitions depot on Black Tom, an island off Jersey City. Tons of debris and jagged shrapnel pepper neighboring Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Thousands of windows across New York are shattered, and millions of residents are awoken wondering what had just happened. Was it an accident or German sabotage?
The Bowery Boys is show about the people and events that have shaped the history of New York City, and really, shaped America.
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