More successful 1919 anarchist bombings

[Hnau]

Yes, a horrible subject, but there is a dark curiosity in me to wonder...

The Galleanist anarchists mailed thirty explosive devices to a wide cross-section of prominent politicians on April 28, 1919. It was hoped that they would all be delivered by May Day for one horrible blow against the US bureaucracy. The main problem in this plan was, fortunately, that the anarchists often forgot to include proper postage for their packages: the post office intercepted one and compared its distinctive markings to others and were able to reach all but two before they detonated.

What if the Galleanist ring-leader that organized a good deal of the plot, Carlo Valdinoci, was able to make the necessary changes to include proper packaging? How might the bombings be different? Let's assume that the post office doesn't intercept any of the packages and they all manage to find their way to their intended targets.

The one bomb that detonated was able to blow the hands off of the housekeeper that opened it, and severely burnt the wife of the Congressman it was intended for. With these kind of results, its probably that some of the following list could have died, though more than likely they will be in the minority.


A Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General of the United States
Albert S. Burleson, Postmaster General of the United States
William H. Lamar, Solicitor of the Post Office
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, United States Supreme Court justice
William B. Wilson, United States Secretary of Labor
Anthony Caminetti, Commissioner General of Immigration
Fredric C. Howe, Port of New York Commissioner of Immigration
Lee S. Overman, United States senator, North Carolina
William H. King, United States senator, Utah
Reed Smoot, United States senator, Utah
Thomas W. Hardwick, former United States senator, Georgia
John L. Burnett, United States congressman, Alabama
Albert Johnson, United States congressman, Washington
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, U.S. District Judge, Chicago
Frank K. Nebeker, Special Assistant to the Attorney General
Charles M. Fickert, District Attorney, San Francisco
Edward A. Cunha, Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco
John F. Hylan, mayor, New York City
Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner, New York City
R.W. Finch, field agent, Bureau of Investigation
Ole Hanson, mayor, Seattle, Washington
William C. Sproul, Governor of Pennsylvania
William I. Schaffer, Attorney General, State of Pennsylvania
T. Larry Eyre, Pennsylvania state senator
John D. Rockefeller, businessman
J. P. Morgan, Jr., businessman
William Madison Wood, president, American Woolen Company
Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi
Walter Scott, mayor, Jackson, Mississippi
Frederick Bullmers, editor, Jackson, Mississippi Daily News


What do you think?

[Tomac]

Reed Smoot, United States senator, Utah


Is this the person that gave us Prohibition? If so, does his assassination short-circuit the drying of America and change the Roaring Twenties?

[Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy]

This is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids#Background

On June 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2), 1919 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919), several bombs were detonated by Galleanist anarchists in eight American cities, including one in Washington, D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.), that damaged the home of newly appointed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The same bomb detonated near Franklin Roosevelt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt) who lived across the street and was walking home with his wife.