History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1112 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Palmer Raids
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The idea
Letter bombs turned up in a New York post office in nineteen nineteen, and on June second eight bombs exploded at once, one at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's house.
In practice
Raids from November nineteen nineteen in twelve cities, organised by the young J. Edgar Hoover.
Where people slip
Four thousand alleged radicals were arrested and held for weeks in overcrowded cells, the anchor says.
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