The worst school massacre in US history occurred in 1927

[madrchsod]

"The worst school massacre in US history occurred in 1927 when Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives at a school in Bath, Michigan, killing 45 people and injuring 61."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

from----- http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9E9586C5-B8F9-455D-85AF-9001282A0E43.htm


who did the 1927 right wing at that time blame for this massacre-the catholics

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/kkk.txt

[jollyreaper2112]

1. but but but that's so long ago!

That doesn't count! And we can't sell the shit out of this current moneymaker-er, tragedy, if it ain't the worst ever!

[Kagemusha]

2. Ah, so it simply wasn't a "shooting".

Just a massacre.

[Supersedeas]

26. the neo-media can't be responsible for fact checking--they have ratings to manage

[formerrepuke]

3. You beat me to the post: The Bath school bombing is even worse

than VT: Andrew Kehoe weasled his way onto the school board so he could have unlimited access to the school building- specifically so he could rig it with explosives, and punish the local adults who voted for a tax levy -by killing their children. It will be 80 years ago one month from tomorrow. I hope there is going to be some kind of memorial observance in Bath.

[ArtieBoy]

6. It was the video games and music

I suspect it was caused by violent video games, or the lyrics of Benny Goodman's big band tunes. I knew the Flappers and Speakeasys would be the downfall of this nation!

[A wise Man]

9. You've got to be kidding

these butt heads have no concept of past history. Their only interest is kissing their corp bosses happy.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Jesus, all Gods that may exist, all ones that don't, and all others inbetween...

I don't think I'm able to fully aprehend the sickness of that. Now I've read the Wikipedia entry and -- Shit. This is TOO much. We're talking McVeigh sick here.

[Beausoir]

27. Gods..pure evil. Horrific.

He watched his stepmom burn alive? Let her burn for a few minutes before putting out the fire.

[B Calm]

40. kick

[MrModerate]

4. Keohe was (it appears) a seriously sick fuck . . .

But there is a difference between blowing people up en masse, and shooting them (multiple times) individually. Not a moral difference, but one of character.

I think a little media hysteria is probably in order today -- this is certainly a bigger deal than some sad golddigger accidentally poisoning herself to death.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. You think?

This monster spent MONTHS veeeeeery carefully and slowly planting explosives at strategic points in the building in order to better blow up the children that passed by him while he did that. He further arranged things so his neighbors and as many adults as possible would get killed. He very likely INVENTED the suicide car bombing.

If anything, he's a couple dozen orders of degree more sick than a college student who went postal one day.

[MrModerate]

18. Oh yeah -- and he took his life the easy way . . .

By blowing himself to bits.

[mike_c]

5. Andrew Kehoe may also be the inventer of the suicide car bomb attack....

Now THAT would be a particular irony. I don't know how many times I've seen that tactic held up on the internets as proof that "we're better than them because we'd never do something like that"

[madrchsod]

19. you could be right

on the suicide car bomb invention..well you are correct on the "car" part but the first in the usa was a horse drwan wagon in new york city....


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HD13Aa01.html
Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.

[REP]

32. No; That Was Mario Buda - 1920, New York City

http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/2007_02.php

A History of the Car Bomb (Part 1)
By Mike Davis

Buda's Wagon (1920)



On a warm September day in 1920, a few months after the arrest of his
comrades Sacco and Vanzetti, a vengeful Italian anarchist named Mario
Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon near the corner of Wall and Broad
Streets, directly across from J. P. Morgan Company. He nonchalantly
climbed down and disappeared, unnoticed, into the lunchtime crowd. A
few blocks away, a startled postal worker found strange leaflets
warning: "Free the Political Prisoners or it will be Sure Death for
All of You!" They were signed: "American Anarchist Fighters." The
bells of nearby Trinity Church began to toll at noon. When they
stopped, the wagon -- packed with dynamite and iron slugs -- exploded
in a fireball of shrapnel.

"The horse and wagon were blown to bits," writes Paul Avrich, the
celebrated historian of American anarchism who uncovered the true
story. "Glass showered down from office windows, and awnings twelve
stories above the street burst into flames. People fled in terror as a
great cloud of dust enveloped the area. In Morgan's offices, Thomas
Joyce of the securities department fell dead on his desk amid a rubble
of plaster and walls. Outside scores of bodies littered the streets."


Buda was undoubtedly disappointed when he learned that J.P. Morgan
himself was not among the 40 dead and more than 200 wounded -- the
great robber baron was away in Scotland at his hunting lodge.
Nonetheless, a poor immigrant with some stolen dynamite, a pile of
scrap metal, and an old horse had managed to bring unprecedented
terror to the inner sanctum of American capitalism.

His Wall Street bomb was the culmination of a half-century of
anarchist fantasies about avenging angels made of dynamite; but it was
also an invention, like Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, far ahead
of the imagination of its time. Only after the barbarism of strategic
bombing had become commonplace, and when air forces routinely pursued
insurgents into the labyrinths of poor cities, would the truly radical
potential of Buda's "infernal machine" be fully realized.

[leftchick]

7. Americans view history in only the last 30 years or so

that goes way too far back for them.

[Xenotime]

8. This was the worst "gun" massacre.

[Leopolds Ghost]

30. No, that would be the Massacre of Wounded Knee, Sand Creek,

and other related massacres of entire villages of American Indian
civilians going back to the 1600s.

[laylah]

37. But they were only

red skin people, they don't count :sarcasm: After all, they had something the Great White Race wanted, and them being considered less than animals, and heathens to boot, we had every right to take it away. Manifest Destiny and all the malarkey.

Jenn

[mainer]

10. Thanks. Didn't know this! nt

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Perpetrated by an anti-tax nut.

Conservatism, same as it ever was.

[yurbud]

13. I thought you were going to put up a pic of Scopes Trial

[Javaman]

14. Don't you know that nothing existed prior to 9/11 according to moron*? nt

[Bandit]

15. Isn't that when the Depression began?

Also Republicans had control of government at that time as well.

[hootinholler]

21. Depression started 1-2 years later.

1929.

-Hoot

[renate]

16. oh my God

Eighty years later, reading about it will just break your heart.

:cry:

I can't believe I've never heard of this... and evidently I'm not the only one. Maybe we weren't told about it in history class because (pre-Columbine, Kip Kinkel, etc) it would have scared us too much.

[karash]

20. .

How appropriate. Look up pyrotol and you will find out that it, as with the handgun used to kill people at VT recently, was a military/law enforcement weapon put on the civilian market for profit--designed for the killing fields of World War I, no less, to create incendiary explosions that would burn soldiers alive.

War always comes home.

[jberryhill]

22. That didn't qualify for the individual men's firearm freestyle division

There is something absurd about the "sports statistics" aspect of this that just doesn't make it worth arguing over.

If someone kills 5 people who were jerks, is that "worse" than killing 1 person whom everyone liked.

Numbers have their place, but this is just awful no matter how you want to quantify things or keep score.

[cascadiance]

23. Damn, and they were pretty much next door to where I was in Michigan...

... and I didn't know that! Our H.S. played them in every year in sports in the Ingham County League... Amazing how we can brush over this stuff..

[BuyingThyme]

24. Notice how the structure collapsed into its own footprint.

[Ignacio Upton]

33. President Coolidge did it!

Yeah, with the use of a military that had its budget severely cut during the inter-war years.

[ThomWV]

25. You see - that's history and history doesn't count.

[moondust]

28. C'mon, we want the record!

Setting records is so...CNNsational! Don't be a spoil sport.

:sarcasm::sarcasm:

[5thGenDemocrat]

29. A substantial part of the explosives failed to detonate

Kehoe had the entire basement of the school wired to blow. A faulty connection kept much of the dynamite from exploding.
John
Lives 60 miles from Bath.

[Alexander]

31. Well, we obviously need a lot more bomb control.

After all, if bombs were banned, he wouldn't have done that.

:eyes:

[ruiner4u]

34. Nicely done...

:)

[PaulaFarrell]

39. Quite likely not

If he hadn't had access to pyrotol and dynamite, it is quite likely that he could not have done this. He wasn't using prohibited materials.

[B Calm]

41. You saying if everybody had a stick of dynamite no one would get hurt?

[Raine]

35. Yeah but the media wouldn't want

to mention that because it takes away from what is happening now. Nowadays everything must be the biggest, the worst, the best etc. etc. or they don't consider it as worthy of their time spend reporting it. x(

[Blue_Tires]

36. ttt nt

[B Calm]

38. Bombing done by a right wing tax angst who was upset over

a property tax levied to fund the construction of the school building. For some reason this doesn't surprise me!!!