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Tom Ripley

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Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:07 PM Aug 2012

The Original Teabagger? [View all]

from Wikipedia:

The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age [1]) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest mass murder in a school in U.S. history.

The bomber was school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe, 55, who was enraged about a property tax levied to fund the construction of the school building. He blamed the additional tax for financial hardships which led to foreclosure proceedings against his farm. These events apparently provoked Kehoe to plan his attack. He died in a car bomb he set off after he drove up to the school as the crowd gathered to rescue survivors from the burning school.

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The Original Teabagger? [View all] Tom Ripley Aug 2012 OP
So the car-bomb technique was invented by an American? HubertHeaver Aug 2012 #1
"We're number one!!!" Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #2
If I remember my reading correctly.... RagAss Aug 2012 #3
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