The broken roofline and surviving cupola of the Bath Consolidated School loom over a field of splintered lumber and brick after the May 18, 1927, bombing in Bath Township, Michigan.
School board treasurer Andrew Kehoe had planted explosives beneath the building and detonated them during the school day. Parts of the school collapsed, leaving debris piled high around the remaining walls and windows seen here.
The Bath School disaster is still remembered as the deadliest attack on a U.S. school. Modern summaries commonly report 45 deaths (including Kehoe) and 58 injured — numbers that were often reported differently in the first chaotic hours and days.
What have you heard from family stories, local history lessons or old newspaper clippings about Bath and May 1927?
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