A small farm town, a grudge over taxes, and a quiet neighbor nicknamed "the dynamite farmer."
The bombs under this Michigan school weren't set off by a fancy timer. What ordinary bedside object did the bomber rig to do the job?
An alarm clock In 1927, school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe hid dynamite and a farm explosive called pyrotol under Bath Consolidated School and timed it to blow mid-morning.
The school board actually invited the future bomber into the building months before. What handyman job did they hire him for?
Fixing the lights Kehoe was a trained electrician, and the repair work gave him ample chance to plant explosives and lay wires without anyone growing suspicious.
While digging through the rubble, rescuers found a second, even bigger stash of explosives in the other wing. What had it done?
Never went off Investigators think the first blast caused a short circuit, which means Kehoe had meant to destroy the entire school and everyone in it.
As neighbors clawed through the bricks that afternoon, which very important visitor rolled up his sleeves and hauled rubble too?
Michigan's governor Governor Fred W. Green pitched in alongside firefighters, contractors, and parents, while a Lansing bakery sent a truck full of pies and sandwiches for the rescuers.
Nearly a century later, what grim record does this tiny township's tragedy still hold?
Deadliest US school attack Kehoe, angry over higher school taxes, a lost election, and a looming foreclosure, left a sign on his farm fence that read "Criminals are made, not born."
