{"id":733,"date":"2007-05-18T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/18\/the-greatest-massacre\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T01:48:00","slug":"the-greatest-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

While outrages like Columbine and the Virginia Tech massacre are all fresh in our minds as depressing reminders of man’s depravity, it’s useful to remember that whenever one is tempted to ask “can it get any worse”, the answer is usually “it already has been”.<\/p>\n

The most horrific schoolhouse massacre in American history<\/a> took place eighty years ago today in tiny Bath, Michigan, as a deranged farmer, Andrew Kehoe, arranged the most cold-blooded mass-murder of children in American history.<\/p>\n


\nKehoe arranged not one but three explosions:<\/p>\n

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  1. The first, at his farm, served to draw firemen and rescuers away from the Bath School.<\/li>\n
  2. The second bomb – 500 pounds of dynamite – obliterated the north wing of the school, killing dozens of children and teachers.<\/li>\n
  3. The third bomb was in Kehoe’s car; he drove to the scene of his first blast, and detonated it, killing himself and several would-be rescuers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was a plot worthy of the most verminous Ba’athist. And it could have been worse; 500 pounds of dynamite under the other <\/em>half of the school misfired and failed to detonate.<\/p>\n

    As bad as things get, remember; it’s probably been worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While outrages like Columbine and the Virginia Tech massacre are all fresh in our minds as depressing reminders of man’s depravity, it’s useful to remember that whenever one is tempted to ask “can it get any worse”, the answer is usually “it already has been”. The most horrific schoolhouse massacre in American history took place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}