The True, Unsolved Mystery of the Bombing at the 1939 World's Fair
July 4, 1940. “This looks like the real goods.” With those final words, the lives of Joseph John Lynch (pictured), and his partner Ferdinand Socha, detectives with the New York City Bomb & Forgery Squad, came to a violent end. History may one day view this tragic event as the very first terrorist attack on United States soil. The ticking satchel that exploded in Detective Lynch's face was found inside the British Pavilion, at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, positioned in a pl
