Thomas W. Hardwick

It's April 29th, 1919, in Atlanta, Georgia, seventeen months before the explosion on Wall Street.

Forty-nine-year-old Thomas Hardwick places a stack of letters on the desk in his study and takes a seat.

The mail's just arrived, and he opens the first envelope as his coffee cools beside him.

As a former US senator from Georgia, Thomas is used to receiving plenty of correspondence.

Now, years later, it seems like others are trying it again.

The parcel bombs set off in April 1919, though, have little effect.

The only device that detonates successfully is the one sent to Thomas Hardwick in Atlanta.

But the terror campaign resumes two months later when nine more bombs are planted on the same morning.