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WKAR s Sophia Saliby speaks with author, Harold Schechter, about his book chronicling the Bath School Disaster.
WKAR’s Sophia Saliby spoke with Schechter about the book.
Interview Highlights
On Who Kehoe Was And Why Investigators Believe He Committed The Massacre
He was somebody who, in the spring of 1927, had descended into paranoia, and basically had come to believe that his life had been destroyed financially, and in other ways, by his townspeople. [They] had voted to construct a very expensive, new, modern, consolidated school and Kehoe, in the spring of 1927, very diabolically set out to take his revenge on the community by blowing up the school on the last day of the school year. Kehoe rigged the basement of the school with hundreds of pounds of this explosive and set a timer for it to go off at around nine o clock in the morning on the last day of school. Fortunately, much of it did not explode, but he did destroy one entire wing of the school, killing 38 children
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Maniac Recounts Deadliest School Mass Murder In American History
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Maniac Recounts Deadliest School Mass Murder In American History
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Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Sadly, mass murders at American schools have been so common that it s all too easy for people to instantly name several that have happened in the last few decades alone.
One that has been largely forgotten, however, is the Bath School disaster, which took the lives of 38 children and six adults in 1927. It remains the deadliest mass murder in a school in American history.
In his new book,
Maniac, author Harold Schechter tells the horrifying story of the massacre, in which a farmer-politician bombed a school in Bath Township, Mich. It s not an easy book to read the details of the terrorist act are, as you might expect, extremely horrifying but it s a fascinating look at one of the most unspeakable events in American history.
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer, by Harold Schechter Little A
Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Sadly, mass murders at American schools have been so common that it s all too easy for people to instantly name several that have happened in the last few decades alone.
One that has been largely forgotten, however, is the Bath School disaster, which took the lives of 38 children and six adults in 1927. It remains the deadliest mass murder in a school in American history.
In his new book,