| LC control no. | sh2007007009 |
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| Topical heading | Black Tom Explosion, Jersey City, N.J., 1916 |
| See also | Explosions--New Jersey |
| Found in | Work cat.: Printed copies of submitted U.S. briefs relating to sabotage cases, 1928-1938 (criminal case records relating to the Black Tom explosion, July 29, 1916; destroyed ammunition storehouses on the docks on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor) Encyc. of espionage, intelligence, and security, online search, Aug. 22, 2007 (Black Tom explosion was the peak act of German sabotage on American soil during World War I; July 29, 1916, German agents set fire to a complex of warehouses and ships in the New York harbor that held munitions, fuel, and explosives bound to aid the Allies in their fight) Wikipedia, Oct. 15, 2007 ("The Black Tom explosion of July 30, 1916 in Jersey City, New Jersey was an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the materials from being used by the Allies in World War I.") Jersey City Past and Present Web site, Oct. 15, 2007 ("On Sunday morning, July 30, 1916, at 2:08 a.m., Jersey City residents were awakened by a major explosion and a succession of smaller explosions that lasted for several hours, sending shock waves as far as ninety miles away. The explosions occurred at Black Tom Island--no longer an island--but a mile-long pier on landfill that connected the island with the Jersey City waterfront.") |
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