Revisiting the Worst School Massacre in U.S. History

90th anniversary remembrances have only just begun

On the front page of several Michigan newspapers today: Washington Post enterprise reporter Theresa Vargas’ look back at the worst school massacre in U.S. history. An event that took place 90 years ago this spring at the Bath Consolidated School north of East Lansing.

The headline “World’s Worst Demon” is a reference to how the farmer who dynamited the school, Andrew Kehoe, was described by neighbor Monty Ellsworth, who would go on to write the book The Bath School Disaster.

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