When the LA Times exploded in 1910, a labor war erupted in Los Angeles. At stake was nothing less than the future of their city.

This is part two of the two-part episode, Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing.

Sources:

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Butler, Kirstin. “When California’s Water Wars Turned Violent” PBS: American Experience. March 24, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-california-water-wars-violent/

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Irwin, Lew. Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America’s Forgotten Decade of Terror. (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2013).

King, Eddie. “The Los Angeles Times Building Fire: October 1, 1910.” The Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1910_1010_LATimesFire/100110_TheLosAngelesTimesFire_gv_11001960.htm

O’Higgins, Harvey. “Detective Burns’ Own Story of His Great Case: The Dynamiters” McClure Magazine. Vol. XXXVI, No. 4. August, 1911. 

Pollack, Alan. “Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Santa Clarita Valley History. https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/al1301.htm

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