The 1927 Armored Car Bombing “Dante’s Inferno”
The Day Someone Blew Up a Payroll Convoy Near Pittsburgh On Bethel Road (now Brightwood Road) in what is now Bethel Park, in the South Hills, on the morning of March 11, 1927, the ground exploded. Not metaphorically. Not as a figure of speech. Someone had buried hundreds of pounds of black powder beneath the…