Andrew Kehoe | |
|---|---|
 Photo taken c. 1920 | |
| Born | Andrew Phillip Kehoe February 1, 1872 Tecumseh, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | May 18, 1927 (aged 55) Bath Township, Michigan, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide attack |
| Occupation(s) | Farmer, school board member and treasurer |
| Known for | Perpetrator of the Bath School disaster |
| Spouse |
Ellen Agnes "Nellie" Price
(m. 1912; murdered 1927) |
| Motive | Inconclusive[b] |
| Details | |
| Date | May 18, 1927 |
| Location(s) | Bath Township, Michigan |
| Target(s) | Bath Consolidated School, his house and farm |
| Killed | 45 (Including himself)[Note 1] |
| Injured | 58 |
| Weapons | Explosives: |
Andrew Philip Kehoe (February 1, 1872 – May 18, 1927) was an American mass murderer. Kehoe was a Michigan farmer who became disgruntled after losing reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school board. He murdered his wife and then detonated bombs at the Bath Consolidated School on May 18, 1927, resulting in the Bath School disaster in which 44 people[Note 2] were killed and 58 more people were injured. Kehoe killed himself near the school by detonating dynamite in his truck, killing himself and several other people and wounding more. He had earlier set off incendiary devices in his house and around his farm, destroying all the buildings. The event remains the deadliest act of mass murder at an American school.
- ^ "Board Votes Aid for Bath". Clinton County Republican-News. Official Clinton County website. May 26, 1927. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
- ^ Ellsworth, Monty J. (1991) [1927]. "Chapter One – The Bath Consolidated School". The Bath School Disaster (1991 online ed.). Bath School Museum Committee. OCLC 6743232. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Ellsworth, Monty J. (1991) [1927]. "Chapter Five – Made Own Troubles". The Bath School Disaster (1991 online ed.). Bath School Museum Committee. OCLC 6743232. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ O'Toole, Mary Ellen (September 2014). "The dangerous injustice collector: Behaviors of someone who never forgets, never forgives, never lets go, and strikes back!". Violence and Gender. 1 (3). Rochefort, New York: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.: 97–99. doi:10.1089/vio.2014.1509. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020.
- ^ Bernstein, Arnie (2009). Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-03346-1.
- ^ Knoll, James L. (March 2010). "The 'Pseudocommando' Mass Murderer: Part I, The Psychology of Revenge and Obliteration". The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 38 (1). Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law: 87–94. PMID 20305080. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
As an example that such mass murderers [pseudocommandoes] have existed long before Whitman [Texas Tower shooter], consider a notorious case, the Bath School disaster of 1927, now long forgotten by most. Andrew Kehoe ...
- ^ Schechter, Harold (2021). Maniac – The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer. Amazon Publishing – Little A. p. 37.
... seems an early sign of his future psychopathology
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