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Today is the anniversary of the deadliest school killing in U.S. History
Posted on 5/18/17 at 11:59 am
Posted on 5/18/17 at 11:59 am
The 90 year anniversary.
On May 18, 1927, an explosion ripped through the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building just off of Main Street in Bath, Michigan.
Andrew P. Kehoe, a local farmer and school board member, who was also the school's caretaker, was the man responsible for the atrocity.
He had placed more than 1,000 pounds of dynamite in the school building over a period of months, setting a timer so it would explode when classes were in session.
After the explosion, Kehoe drove up and detonated explosives in his truck, killing himself and three adults — the school superintendent, the postmaster and his father-in-law — and a child nearby who had survived the original blast.
On May 18, 1927, an explosion ripped through the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building just off of Main Street in Bath, Michigan.
Andrew P. Kehoe, a local farmer and school board member, who was also the school's caretaker, was the man responsible for the atrocity.
He had placed more than 1,000 pounds of dynamite in the school building over a period of months, setting a timer so it would explode when classes were in session.
After the explosion, Kehoe drove up and detonated explosives in his truck, killing himself and three adults — the school superintendent, the postmaster and his father-in-law — and a child nearby who had survived the original blast.
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Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:00 pm to anc
Wow, that's some dark shite.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:01 pm to anc
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school I am a dumbass and read that wrong somehow
quote:
1,000 pounds of dynamite in the school building over a period of months, setting a timer so it would explode when classes were in session.
After the explosion, Kehoe drove up and detonated explosives in his truck,
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:01 pm to anc
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and a child nearby who had survived the original blast.
Talk about your bad luck.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:01 pm to anc
How many deaths? That is so fricked up.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:01 pm to anc
that'll learn em
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:01 pm to jbgleason
I didn't say school shooting.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:02 pm to TheCaterpillar
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How many deaths? That is so fricked up.
45 and 59 injuries.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:02 pm to anc
Wow. Couldn't have been many other car bombings going on in the 1920's.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:02 pm to anc
quote:
Today is the anniversary of thequote:in U.S. History
deadliest school killing
I didn't say school shooting.
Did I read that wrong? Sorry.
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:03 pm to jbgleason
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jbgleason
quote:
school shooting
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1,000 pounds of dynamite in the school building over a period of months, setting a timer so it would explode when classes were in session.
After the explosion, Kehoe drove up and detonated explosives in his truck,
???????????????????
Did you just make this up?
It doesn't say shooting and he hasn't edited.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:03 pm to jbgleason
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Nice edit.
There was no edit.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:03 pm to anc
Wow. That's messed up.
On another note, he must have sucked at bomb making because if 1,000 pounds of dynamite had detonated inside a brick structure of that size, there would be nothing left bigger than big splinters.
On another note, he must have sucked at bomb making because if 1,000 pounds of dynamite had detonated inside a brick structure of that size, there would be nothing left bigger than big splinters.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:03 pm to jbgleason
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Nice edit.
He hasn't edited. There is no edit time stamp.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm to anc
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm to SidewalkDawg
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Talk about your bad luck.
final destination
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm to jbgleason
Reading comprehension, got'em...your mind played the same trick as mine did..I skim read it and thought school shooting as well until I saw your post and reread it again and saw it didn't say school shooting..
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:04 pm to CENLALSUFAN
Yep.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:05 pm to jbgleason
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Did I read that wrong? Sorry.
bullshite. you came into this thread with an agenda already set to go and so you read what you wanted in the title.
eta and you were dishonest enough to TYPE the word SHOOTING in your reply instead of pasting his title which is how i know you're full of shite.
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 12:06 pm to jb4
Reading more on Wikipedia
Andrew Kehoe was the 55-year-old school board treasurer and was angered by increased taxes and his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat. He had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. In addition, he was notified that his mortgage was going to be foreclosed upon in June 1926.[3] For much of the next year, a neighbor noticed that he had stopped working on his farm and thought that he might be planning suicide. During that period, Kehoe purchased explosives and discreetly planted them on his property and under the school.
Kehoe murdered his wife Nellie sometime between May 16 and the morning of May 18, 1927; she had just been discharged from the hospital with an undefined illness. He then set off various incendiary devices on his homestead on the morning of May 18 at about 8:45 a.m., causing the house and other farm buildings to be destroyed by the explosives' blasts and subsequent fires.
Almost simultaneously, an explosion devastated the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building, killing 36 schoolchildren and two teachers. Kehoe had used a timed detonator to ignite hundreds of pounds of dynamite and incendiary pyrotol, which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and used a rifle to detonate dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself, the school superintendent, and several others nearby, as well as injuring more bystanders. During rescue efforts at the school, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol connected to a timing device set to detonate at the same time as the first explosions; the material was hidden throughout the basement of the south wing. Kehoe had apparently intended to blow up and destroy the entire school.
Andrew Kehoe was the 55-year-old school board treasurer and was angered by increased taxes and his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat. He had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. In addition, he was notified that his mortgage was going to be foreclosed upon in June 1926.[3] For much of the next year, a neighbor noticed that he had stopped working on his farm and thought that he might be planning suicide. During that period, Kehoe purchased explosives and discreetly planted them on his property and under the school.
Kehoe murdered his wife Nellie sometime between May 16 and the morning of May 18, 1927; she had just been discharged from the hospital with an undefined illness. He then set off various incendiary devices on his homestead on the morning of May 18 at about 8:45 a.m., causing the house and other farm buildings to be destroyed by the explosives' blasts and subsequent fires.
Almost simultaneously, an explosion devastated the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building, killing 36 schoolchildren and two teachers. Kehoe had used a timed detonator to ignite hundreds of pounds of dynamite and incendiary pyrotol, which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and used a rifle to detonate dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself, the school superintendent, and several others nearby, as well as injuring more bystanders. During rescue efforts at the school, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol connected to a timing device set to detonate at the same time as the first explosions; the material was hidden throughout the basement of the south wing. Kehoe had apparently intended to blow up and destroy the entire school.
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