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A 5 page essay that critically evaluates Nathan Ward's article on the 1920 bombing of Wall Street, The Fire Last Time (2001). The writer contrasts and compares Ward's recounting of this event with other sources and argues the conclusion that while his article is historically accurate, inclusion of additional details and analysis would have made it better. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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been assaulted by terrorists. In his article Ward discusses the details of the September 16, 1920 bombing of Wall Street by unknown terrorists. Wards description of this event points to
many similarities with the 2001 attacks. Comparison between Wards account. and those produced by other commentators, substantiates that his article is historically accurate. However, such comparisons also point out
deficits in Wards recounting of this event and in his analysis of its significance. Examination of these accounts, focusing on Wards article, shows that, first of all, inclusion of specific
details not alluded to by Ward give the reader a better conception of the destructiveness of the 1920 attack. Secondly, Ward, by not going into more detail as to the
police investigation of the attack, gives the impression that it was not thorough enough; and, finally, his analysis fails to explicitly identity certain pertinent points that have significance
from todays perspective. All sources agree with Ward that on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart, filled with dynamite and sash weights (small iron weights that acted as shrapnel
when the bomb explored) pulled up in front of the Assay Office, near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad just as the lunch house was beginning (Ward, 2001). The
driver fled and the dynamite exploded a few minutes later. Ward (2001) quotes Charles P. Dougherty of the Sun, as saying that the explosion shot "a column of smoke" into
the air and that some people had their clothes catch fire (p. 46). Ward includes various details about the explosions intensity, including the account of one observer that it produced
a "mushroom-shaped" cloud of about 100 feet in height (2001). However, the description provided by Byrk (2003) does a better job of conveying the horror and intensity of the
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