John McNamara and James McNamara

 

 

 

 

James McNamara, Samuel Gompers, and John McNamara , 1911 (Brown Brothers)

 

 

The McNamara Brothers, who confessed to bombing the Los Angeles Time building in 1910. 
Clarence Darrow was accused of attempting to bribe a juror in the McNamara trial.

 

 

John McNamara and James McNamara

 

 

 

 

James B. McNamara pled guilty on Friday, December 1, 1911 in the Los Angeles Superior Court to
bombing the Los Angeles Times building. It was fourteen months to the day since the bombing
that killed twenty employees. His brother John (J.J.) pled guilty to bombing the Llewellyn Iron
works. James McNamara was sentenced to life in prison and J.J. McNamara was sentenced
to fifteen years. Ortie McManigal is to the left.

 

 

Times offices, Broadway N.E. corner of 1st St., 1910, before the bombing.

 

 

After the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, Oct. 1, 1910.

 

 

After the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, Oct. 1, 1910.

 

 

Unidentified body is removed from rubble, 1910.

 

 

Real photo postcard of rubble of the Los Angeles Times Building after the 1910 bombing.

 

 

 

 

Ink Alley, located at rear of the Los Angeles Times Building where the dynamite was planted.
Courtesy of University of Southern California, on behalf of the USC Special Collections.

 

 

Aftermath

 

 

William J. Burns, known as "America's Sherlock Holmes," is famous for having conducted a private
investigation clearing Leo Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, and for serving as the director of
the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) (predecessor to the FBI) from August 22, 1921 to June 14, 1924.