Four men stand in the schoolyard debris between two damaged brick sections of the Bath Consolidated School after the May 18, 1927, bombing in Bath Township, Michigan.
That morning, school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives he had hidden under the building. The blast tore open parts of the school and sent bricks, beams and classroom materials into the yard. As rescue work began, investigators later found additional explosives that had not gone off.
The Bath School disaster is still remembered as the deadliest attack on a U.S. school. Final casualty totals varied in early reports, but modern accounts commonly cite 45 deaths (including Kehoe) and 58 injured.
What do you know or remember about how Bath rebuilt after 1927?
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