Black Tom Island -Germany Hits US 1916

I didn't know that NYC was first blown-up by Germany in 1916!

& Woodrow Wilson covered it up to protect his Presidential reelection campaign of anti-war

Black Tom Accident

The commission declared in 1939 that Imperial Germany had been responsible and ordered damages to be paid $50 million in 1953 (US$ 456,171,983.36 in 2011). The final payment was made in 1979.