In this episode, Norm covers May 18, 1927, when school board member Andrew Kehoe set off a series of explosions that killed 38 children, 6 adults, and injured at least 58 others. That act of domestic terrorism forever changed the small community of Bath, Michigan.
Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Bath School Museum. “Bath School Museum.” https://bathschoolmuseum.org/.
Bernstein, Arnie. Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. The University of Michigan Press, 2009.
“Merrian Josephine Cushman Vail (1913-2013) - Find...” Accessed July 17, 2025. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6056318/merrian_josephine-vail.
Parker, Grant. Mayday. Liberty Press, 1980.
Schechter, Harold. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer. Little A, 2021.
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