Virginia Tech and A Grisly Historic Footnote

The massacre of 32 students this week at Virginia Tech University was not the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history.

That long-forgotten distinction belongs to the Bath Township (Michigan) Consolidated School, where 45 people were killed and 58 injured on May 18, 1927 in a dynamite explosion set off by school board member Andrew Kehoe.

Kehoe was upset that a property tax that had been levied to fund the construction of the school building and blamed the additional financial hardship to foreclosure proceedings against his farm.

Click here for Hell Comes to Bath, a lengthy account of the incident.