The Bombing America Forgot - May 18, 1927

from The Daily History Chronicle · host Richard G Backus

On May 18, 1927, a school board treasurer in Bath, Michigan detonated explosives he had secretly planted beneath an elementary school, killing 38 children in what remains the deadliest school massacre in American history. Three days later, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, and the nation forgot it happened. This episode asks the questions that Bath never got to answer.

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