The Bomb No One Saw Coming: 7 Cops Dead, 4 Men Hanged | The Haymarket Affair
On a rainy night in Chicago, May 4, 1886, a homemade dynamite bomb exploded in a crowd of police at a workers’ rally. Seven officers died. At least four civilians were killed. The bomber vanished into the dark—and was never identified.
What followed was a nationwide panic, a rushed trial of eight anarchists, four hangings, one suicide in a jail cell, and a legacy that still divides historians.
Host Alexander Lawson digs into the true crime at the heart of the Haymarket Affair: the unsolved bombing, the controversial convictions, and the question that refuses to die—who really threw the bomb?…
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