Forgotten History: America's Worst School Massacre
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Thanks for doing this!! I worked for nearly 30 years at the Lansing hospital the injured children and adults were brought to. The stories those nurses told still echo in the halls. I met an elderly man who lost his leg, and his brother, in the blast.
Lived in the area. Never forgotten.
It's almost as if people forget that there was this thing called violence long before social media.
The media wants you to believe thats a newer thing. So you will stay tuned in.
In 1910 only about twelve percent of teenagers in the u.s. went to school.
No way
It just wasn't widely known about when these things happened before social media and tv
no it's more like how many times has this happened and we didnt learn how to stop it by now, we can cure certain cancers but ain't figured out how to treat people properly
"Criminals are made. Not born."
I think the vague quote of him telling everyone should be running to the school, not his farm, as cool as a cucumber, gives me the biggest chills.
The memorial is beautiful. We've visited twice on the anniversary to place flowers. It's very eerie and calm
Criminals are definitely essentially there. I don't believe in this 'nature/nurture' stuff that 'sociologists like to make a living espousing. It's a jungle out there, with the veneer of society to keep us civilised. There's good and bad to differing degrees in all of us
If he had not spent all that money on explosives he could have afforded those taxes....
Exactly! Also at that time farm equipment wasn't cheap either, it was pretty new but he apparently had alot of it. But then again that's cause it wasn't about taxes. Why did he kill his wife over school taxes? Why didn't he blow up the church? They wanted an ungodly amount money too and potentially embarrassed. It was never about the money. He was a sick creep and the taxes were a "good excuse" or "good reason" in his sick mind...
I bet if we could go back in the mind of someone just walking around at the time we would see this guy was probably already antagonistic to children on the daily and knowing the times it probably wasn't his first time harming children.
Yeah bombs aren’t cheap
Nah back then nothing costed anything
@@merucrypoison296 what
@@sangayd4091 everything was cheap back then
I had never heard of this before. This is horrifying, though I am glad that I learned about it. Thank you!
me too ... FAKE news have been very silent.
That’s what she said
Because no one wants to talk about this, it might inspire people to do the same thing
That's because it wasn't done to promote an agenda.
Knew of this but thank you for fleshing the horrific story out. At least the memorial procession of cars is better than sending thoughts and prayers.
Yeah, "thoughts and prayers" is never anything but bullshit.
@@briancrawford8751 so's a procession of cars, or anything else anyone can do for that matter. When people are dead, there's nothing that can be done. Conveying thoughts and prayers at least lets the affected know people are thinking of them and mourn with them, providing some amount of comfort. It's really silly to say "thoughts and prayers do nothing." You just want to bash religion; you want to make a point of saying "it duz nuthin."
@@TenMillionYearProgram42 No, I have no intention of bashing religion, being a Christian myself. It's a cliched, formulaic phrase that leaders utter hundreds of times during their careers, and it's been said so many times it means nothing. Have you ever been comforted by someone in power sending you "thoughts and prayers" via television? They don't even tell you what their thoughts are, or what their prayers are for!
I love all of your videos on all your channels! As soon as I saw the title I knew it was going to be about Bath, Michigan. I'm from the upper Peninsula and still remember when I learned about this. Makes me sad every time I hear the story about what happened.
The way you quoted "attacked by a lawless ruffian" was unintentionally hilarious. It's absolutely horrifying but said very mundanely.
This is really crazy. I was born and raised in Lansing and had a friend form Bath Township. I had never heard of this tragedy before this video.
I only heard about this recently but yeah this was a shocking display of wanton destruction.
You have to be seriously black hearted to kill innocent children just because you didn’t feel like paying for their school.
Severe head injuries have been known to cause drastic shifts in behavior, sometimes homicidal. As to whether criminals are born or made, I don’t think it’s either or, I think some are born, some are made and some are a combination. The human psyche is much more complicated than a simple either or.
I would say severely disturbed.....could have blown the school up during the night when no one would have been there....his issue wasn't with the children, nor the teachers and other staff....it was with the local government and the school board....
sadly these people never dole out the violence to those who actually deserve it (in their eyes) so their entire mission becomes pointless. Same story with Ted K and all the other morons
No students = no need for a school.
No school = no need for a school board.
No school board = no need for a school tax
not saying he wasn't disturbed, but there is A reason why he would go after the children over the building.
I think you're both missing the most important part, he didn't care, it was an excuse he like many other shooters and bombers are only out to hurt people. Their political agenda is just a "good reason" to do what they already planned to do. He wanted to hurt children not the school board, don't get motivation and excuses and lies mixed up, you should know the truth is always somewhere in the middle of it all.
his intentions were to kill as many people as possible.
My church (Bath United Methodist church) was blown off its foundation from this explosion. It was beside the school. My Friend Raymond Esthruth was in second grade, the most affected. 26 2nd graders went to school that day, 13 were alive after the explosion. We have a plaque in the church with all the victims names.
The last survivor that I knew was Dean Sweet.
There is a statue of a girl holding a kitten in the Bath museum that was made from pennies sent in from children.
It was the largest mass murder by explosion until the Murrow Oklahoma city bombing. It was also done from a man from Michigan...
Fun fact, they only found the shoe and foot of Andrew Kehoe after the truck exploded. They buried it in an unmarked grave in St. Johns MI. They dug 2 graves so no owe would know which contained his last remains.
Bath has an annual "Bath days" in the James Cousins park with the copula in the center. Yes, they do have bath tub races.
Thanks for the great summation.
My cousin is a teacher there now lol.
@@Error_404-F.cks_Not_Found If you ever get up there, I refinished the Stage. WE used to do theater there. Bath Community Theatre Guild.
I used to work in Bath. Some co workers and I went out looking for the remains of Kehoe’s farm. Pretty sure we found it, but there’s nothing left. Such a sad story.
Why he _had_ to blow it while the students were in attendance is beyond me! If he's THAT depressed or whatever, why make countless other people suffer too, just for your B.S.?!?
#Infuriating 😡
He probably wanted to hurt people. Make other people suffer for "the wrongs" done to him. Doesn't make it any better, or any less awful, since most of it was in his head.
Fantastic! I’ve been to this sight a few times. I learned something about this from this video and I’ve read both of the books I could find about it and taken a tour given by a local historian.
I just read a book about this. Crazy to see you tackle it. Well done.
Could you tell me the name of the book?
The New London school explosion in Texas, is also worthy of coverage. Even Adolf Hitler sent his sympathies in 1937.
Bro what kind of stupid ass comment was made by you
37 children lost their lives because a nutter said so.
The secondary explosion when Kehoe pulled up in front of the school was the first ever documented use of a suicide truck-bomb.
I clicked on this randomly and was happy to hear simons voice, unfortunately I just heard him say my town so kinda a bummer.
I live in mid Michigan, how have I never heard of this! Tragic story made worse by the thought it happened a short drive away...
My family is related to the Kehoe family. We have Kehoes living around here to this day. I went to school with them. Governor Greene’s “mansion” when he wasn’t governor is a block and a half from my house.
It’s a very dark part of Michigan’s history to have the first school massacre in the US happen here. I don’t think I had realized it was still the worst ever.
Crazy. I knew that this happened, but didn’t know the story. great video
As usual Simon, top quality work! Never knew about this. Figured the Newtown massacre in 2012 was the worst school disaster. Keep up with the videos man you're killing it!
It was the worst bombing incident til Oklahoma
The worst death toll was the New London Texas School Disaster.
i live a few miles away.
I feel like this would be more horrifying than modern events, as it would be so hard back then to fathom such an incident... This is nightmarish!
There were more attrocities then than now
You may want to look into the New London Texas School Disaster too.
I live right near his birthplace. Even a road named after him just down the road from me that I travel daily. I remember researching serial killers from Michigan and seeing his name. It sent a chill down my spine as soon as I noticed the last name.
This could have been a Casual Criminalist episode
Hehehe, our nation says Simon. An Englishman in Czech.
I live not far from Bath. I'm from Lansing. (but I don't live there now) I've been to Bath a few times. I've heard about this before. I like reading about Michigan history. It's so sad. I hate that it happened at all.
I was a student in a rural school in Michigan and once upon a time it was a consolidated school district just like this one.
I live ten minutes from Bath and have driven by where this happened a bunch of times
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There is no justification in the world for doing what Kehoe did, but this is a genuine question; when the people went into what was Kehoe's burning farm, why did they try to bring back furniture? I certainly wouldn't risk getting trapped in a madman's blown up farmhouse for some furniture.
1. The people that showed up at his farm didn't know he was guilty of anything. 2. They would often times save furniture from fires, back in the day it was what good neighbors did.... Today we don't have good neighbors....
Risking your or soneone else's life for some furniture has nothing to do with being a good neighbour just sounds like stupidity or strange priorities.
In real terms furniture was much more expensive than today, once bought, expected to last a lifetime or several lifetimes, saved from a fire it was able to help the victims of the fire restart their lives.
Wow, thank you for this very interesting piece of history. Can not believe I have never heard of it.
Wow. What an absolute tragedy of a story. It's very dark and sad, but nonetheless should be remembered. Thank you Simon, Gilles, Daven and Sam for making this video.
so this is another *a hit on the noggin a day, unleash the serial killer at bay*
I grew up in Lansing, and the Bath massacre is still remembered there.
Good video 👍
Harold schechter has a great book about this event called maniac
I lived in Bath. This is still well remembered there.
I love this channel.
I grew up right by here . I had saw the historical markers. Never knew what actually happened untill a few years ago.
Marvin Heemeyer was a man that was fucked over by his community yet managed to exact revenge without killing anyone. I wonder if Kehoe had chosen not to kill anyone and to destroy the school when it was unoccupied if he'd also be remembered similarly to Heemeyer.
I keep telling The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered channel to cover this story, but I guess he forgot.
I suspect though, that he has a staggeringly long list of things he'd like to cover.
I think he would do a marvelous job. However, this was one of his best.He talks a little fast, but that is only because he is trying to get everything in a very short time. And if you are watching and paying attention, you can follow him quite easy. I believe children could too. This is one of top 10% best. He really got it all in and didn't stumble even once. I love his videos.
You can tear your own mind to pieces trying to reason out the actions of a mad man
This is not forgotten. Fun fact I guess, the Michigan State Police bomb squad still teaches about it.
Maybe you'd like to do a Casual Criminalist episode on this one, as an expansion.
found this massacre through a wikipedia rabbit hole, looked for a vid and was sad there was only two, and decided to take a chance on a channel i’d never seen, come to find out it’s another one of the amazing simon whistler’s channels
If this man did this today there’d be a following calling him a patriot among a few. Sick man.
Pretty fucked up im 28 and lived in Michigan my whole life and I’m just now learning of this lol
63 and I learned of it 10 years ago and a life long Michigander.
33 and in the same boat. Definitely messed up...
I've lived in Lansing my whole life. right down the street from Bath. never heard of this
That dude had to have some sort of brain damage, seems like all that Dynamite would cost more than just paying the tax, but I guess crazy wouldn't be crazy if it made any logical sense.
Sounds like an episode of the Casual Criminalist
I live in Michigan and we still talk about it.
This would make a great movie.
My husband went to MSU law (I'm u of m foe undergrad). I'm barely aware of this story and I live relatively close
I've lived 60 years here and never heard of it. I'd say it's funny that we don't talk about this event -- I would do, except, I live in America. Sadly, this surprises me not one bit.
Unfortunately the stresses that the average person faces now-a-days are much greater in number than they used to be, social media being one piece of the depressing mosaic. Considering the social stress children have to endure in the modern education system, it's no wonder we are seeing people psychologically break with greater and greater frequency. That's why I try to treat everyone with kindness, you never know what someone might be going through.
There are lots of camels with weakened backs in todays world, don't be the straw that breaks it.
The biggest fear now is when your government might use a "Manchurian candidate" to promote their agenda.
It's Michigan state university Simon great video
I live in MI, and I never heard about this.
"Schools he bombs, he bombs."
- Mike Doughty
Wait... this was from michigan!?!?!?!?!?!? Weird. I have NEVER heard of this.
It was the worst school terrorist attack ever.
Thank you.
Amazingly, there are comments justifying this atrocity. A man is angry and feels targeted over taxes so terrorism and murder are an acceptable response. Small wonder acts of horrific violence are commonplace in the USA.
Hero of libertarians everywhere, lol
And a thing has never changed as school shootings are so common today
SIMON GET THAT EXERCISE RING CLOSED ON YOU WATCH! Slacker… it’s like he’s a historian not an athlete or something.
What a coincidence!!! I saw this documentary exactly on the day this happened
You must be really old
@@tmilesffl 😅 I meant I saw on the same day this year.
Your hair grew reverse 🤭😂😂
Before everyone had a gun everyone had TNT
What a monster! This was all over taxes he would murder so many innocent children! I will never understand the amount of evil on certain people's heart!
I get it, you push a man so far and he will snap! Governments and townships “bully” people all the time to get what they want, and sometimes the people push back! Just look at the guy who turned his excavator into a TANK! It’s no excuse for killing all them innocence though!
Simply horrible what a tragic waste of life
Interesting thought. Is there a familial connection between Andrew and Chevie Kehoe?. I know Chevie was born in Florida, but that doesn't mean much.
He is buried in an unmarked grave in St John's Michigan
Johnny Machida, ladies and gentlemen.
so sad.
"It was way better back in the days"
Keyhoe was too based for his own good. Taxes are a bitch, but this was too many steps too far.
This is news to me, I did not know about this.
That's because it doesn't fit in with the socialist/liberal LWO gun grabbing agenda.
Oh yeah that one
How horrible. It reminds me of the Cokeville school bombing in 1984.
Surprised this wasn't on casual criminalist
The list grows again: Uvalde
Different agenda at work.
@@firestarter105G a massacre nonetheless.
@@ewhays Yes, killing innocent people in order to disarm them.
This is horrible and, like many others, the first I've heard of it.
The original Killdozer story.
Well that's super fucked up.
He beat a horse to death…….i hate him
One horse vs 37 kids?
never heard of this wow
Odd the bald guy looks like the guy on some other channel I watch. Sounds like him too.
So, in 1927 you could just go to the store and buy dynamite?
There's a lot of things you could do back then that you can't do today yet there was less crime than.
Bro there’s no way that’s his actual photo, dudes face is 4x small than his head
Is that list all in America? Smh
So America has always been this way….
11:20 I guess that explains why he did a half-assed job and left half the school still standing.
Didn’t hear dunblain there .,,,
Bath Michigan may 18 1927 worst school killing in history
Goes to show that video games don't cause violence, it's just boomers projecting.
Wow, I've seen some dumb Karen comments, this takes the cake.