For Bath, Memory of 1927 School Bombing that Killed 44 Never Goes Away

Bath, MI
Andrew Kehoe spent months in planning, buying dynamite and testing detonation devices. He hid hundreds of pounds of dynamite under the school, wired to an alarm clock.

On May 18, 1927, the last day of school before summer vacation, the bomb went off, destroying a wing of the school.  The explosion could be heard for miles. People milled around, finding survivors and bodies in the debris and broken glass.

Kehoe returned in his truck and asked for the superintendent.  When the superintendent approached Kehoe's truck, the second bomb detonated, killing Kehoe and the superintendent.

Thirty-seven children and seven adults died, and 58 were injured. It was the worst school disaster in U.S. history.

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