Residents pitch in to find survivors at the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan after school board member Andrew Kehoe used dynamite to blow it up on May 18, 1927. The school had been dynamited by an angry school board member, but no one knew that yet. Media outlets at the time — and as recently as 2015 — described the event as the country’s “worst school massacre.” One Virginia newspaper ran a headline with the phrase: “Nation’s Worst Rampage.”But they were wrong. The New York Times story about the Bath school explosion that ran on May 20, 1927. “There were sights that I hope no one will ever have to look at again,” Ellsworth wrote.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2017 10:07 UTC