But like they did in Bath, they will come out of this in Connecticut. “One person did a lot of damage to a lot of lives. “It’s like it happened yesterday,” Bernstein said. The author said he has maintained contact with people in Bath, and he said that even generations later, the trauma is not forgotten. In an interview this summer with the Christian Science Monitor, Arnie Bernstein, author of 2009’s Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing, noted that there wasn’t a media frenzy.

“It’s eerie to me how close it is,” Bernstein said. Ive also author of Bath Massacre: Americas First School Bombing, the true story of the first mass murder at an American public school on May 18,1927 in the small Michigan town of Bath. Local author Arnie Bernstein recently published an updated version of the book, and he will give a presentation at Bookie’s New and Used Books on May 14. : Bath Massacre: Americas First School Bombing (9780472033461) by Bernstein, Arnie and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible. Both Kehoe and alleged Newtown shooter Adam Lanza had ties to the school, and both apparently killed people close to them before the school attack. Arnie Bernstein Bath Massacre tells the story of a tragedy that occurred in a small town in Michigan nearly a century ago. With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storytellers eye for human. The shrapnel-filled car bomb killed the school superintendent and others.īernstein said he sees parallels between the Connecticut killings and the Bath massacre generations ago. Bath Massacre: Americas First School Bombing Arnie Bernstein. As people ran up to his car, he detonated explosives inside it, making it a 1920s version of a suicide car bomb. While firefighters were there, an explosion rocked the school. Historical sources say that on that Wednesday morning, Kehoe beat his wife to death and set his farm on fire.

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