The 100th Anniversary of the PREPAREDNESS DAY BOMBING

THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCITEY INVITE YOU TO A SPECIAL JOINT PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
PREPAREDNESS DAY BOMBING

The aftermath of the bombing

A century ago in San Francisco, war and revolution were in the air. Amid management-labor strife at home, the nation was bracing to enter World War I. “Preparedness Day” parades designed to stir American cities into action were staged.

On July 22, 1916, with perhaps 100,000 people watching 50,000 marchers, a dynamite bomb exploded at Market and Steuart Streets. When the chaos subsided, 10 lay dead and more than 40 others were gravely wounded. The incident was the deadliest act of terrorism in San Francisco history.

Almost immediately, police arrested two socialist labor activists, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. Both were tried and convicted; Billings was given a life sentence, and Mooney was sentenced to hang. When evidence emerged that witnesses had committed perjury, and prosecutors and investigators had suborned their testimony, the defendants’ plight became an American Dreyfus Affair. Their imprisonment was a cause célèbre culminating in an extra-ordinary 1938 hearing in the California Assembly and a pardon from Governor Culbert Olson in 1939.

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MCLE credit will be awarded only with
online registration and payment.

For more information, please contact the
Historical Society Administrator at
(415) 522-4246 or HistoricalSociety@cand.uscourts.gov

This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program (an approved provider of the State Bar of California), and attendance earns one hour of general MCLE.

Panelists

Charles Fracchia, Founder, San Francisco Museum & Historical Society

Christopher O'Sullivan, Adjunct Professor of History, University of San Francisco

John Briscoe, Esq., Briscoe Ivester & Bazel, San Francisco

Moderator

Robert James, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco

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Date:  Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Time:  5:00-6:30 p.m. (Allow time to go through
    federal building security; be sure to have ID)

Place: Ceremonial Courtroom
    Federal Building, 19th Floor
    450 Golden Gate Avenue
    San Francisco, CA 94102

Cost:  *Free to the general public
    *$15 for Historical Society members seeking MCLE credit
    *$40 for non-members seeking MCLE credit