Terrorism in the Richmond District, 1927 - Western Neighborhoods Project
Please Donate Exploding luggage on Balboa Street and the "black hand." Detail of car explosion on Balboa Street near 15th Avenue, July 31, 1927. - Jesse B. Cook Collection, UC Berkeley Terrorism in the Richmond District in 1927 WNP member Paul Rosenberg did some research on a 1927 explosion on Balboa Street near 15th Avenue. "Jesse Brown Cook began as a San Francisco police officer and worked his way up to police chief (1908-1910) and, later, served on the police commission. His collection of photographs from 1895 to 1936 at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library runs to about 8,000 images and ab...
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