Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Averkin.

This day, May 18th, 1927, a horrific act of terror, the Bath Michigan bombing.

This is the moment when an angry school board member dynamited the Bath consolidated school.

Bath is a town just outside of East Lansing, Michigan, if you know that part of the world.

Andrew Kijo, a local 55-year-old farmer, set off explosives first at his home killing his wife and

then he drove to the school building where he had set up dynamite to demolish

that building and then outside of the school he blew up his own car as well killing himself and one other person there.

In total, 45 people were killed, among them 38 children.

This still stands as the largest mass murder at a school in US history, though we of course now live with death after death at schools from guns in this day and age.

It's a really tough topic, but it's been on our list for a while and a lot of people have suggested we touch on the bath massacre

So here to do that as always Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello there

Hello Jody.

Hey there.

We often on this show do a lot of like take the story on its own for what it is and understand

it in context and I want to do that but I also just largely feel like the way we're

interested in the story is because of all the residences to the violence and

school violence we see now but I suppose we should talk about Andrew Kehoe who he is this town and why he decides to commit this act

So what is Nicky the biographical sketch as best as best you know it about this man.

So Kijo was a farmer and he was also somebody who was involved in the local community.

He had served on the school board.

He had picked up a position as the town clerk.

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