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Brothers John J. ("J.J.") and James Barnabas ("J.B.") McNamara were arrested in April 1911 for the bombing. Their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labor movement. J.B. admitted to setting the explosive, and was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment .
James B. "J.B." McNamara died of cancer in San Quentin on March 9, 1941. Despite repeated attempts by left-wing labor leaders and certain politicians to win his release, J.B. McNamara refused to file any parole requests. His brother John died in Butte, Montana on May 8, 1941.
Feb 3, 2023 · McNamara and John J. McNamara pled guilty to bombing the Los Angeles Times building and the Llewellyn Iron Works, respectively. Avoiding the death penalty, James was given life in prison while his brother was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
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Nov 16, 2012 · John and James McNamara were found guilty and sentenced to San Quentin prison, where James spent the remainder of his life. John McNamara served 10 years, and then returned home to Cincinnati and his mother in Northside. Both of the brothers died in 1941.
The arrests of James McNamara and his brother John, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, further infuriated trade unionists, who became convinced that the arrests represented an attempt to discredit organized labor by framing them for the crime.
James McNamara to life imprisonment and John McNamara to fifteen years, Harriman's campaign appeared doomed. But the McNamara confessions alone do not adequately explain the outcome of the 1911 election. Overlooked in the historical literature of the mayoral campaign is the fact that Harriman received over three times the number of votes in the
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Sentences: Life imprisonment for James B. McNamara and 15 years imprisonment for John J. McNamara. SIGNIFICANCE: The McNamara brothers trial, which ended just as it began with confessions of guilt by the McNamaras, set the cause of organized labor on the West Coast back by decades.
