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@ArDeeMee
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, uhm. That AI video at the end is atrocious. =X
@debbieellett9093
Жыл бұрын
Love your channel, so well researched and presented too! Wish I could afford to be a Patron, however medical bills make it difficult to eat,get my food, basically the US medical insurance stinks.
@thilsiktonix
Жыл бұрын
I clicked on the AI video link by accident, and proceeded to have an existential crisis. Ouch.
@thilsiktonix
Жыл бұрын
@@debbieellett9093 Good luck out there man. It's okay.
@BrandonHiller-eb2bp
Жыл бұрын
Did you know kids from all over America sent in pennies to be melted down to make the copper memorial statue for those killed?
@mandy8558
Жыл бұрын
My great-grandmother was one of the survivors of this incident. She made it out with minor injuries, and she always said how lucky she was because several of her classmates (including the one who sat right in front of her) died from the bombing. Thank you for covering this!
@Sj430
Жыл бұрын
@@paulwalsh2458I have heard about it. I just don't know much about it.
@irysh9
Жыл бұрын
@@Sj430 I am the device that went off. I know much about it.
@onomis
Жыл бұрын
That must've been traumatic, especially at that age
@mikigirl18
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad she got out of there mostly uninjured, and I hope the rest of her life went well.
@mandy8558
Жыл бұрын
@@mikigirl18 She did! She lived a very long life, having 13 kids and way too many grandkids and great-grandkids before passing in 2005.
@crazyguy32100
Жыл бұрын
Most Plainly Difficult disasters are caused by human neglect. This one is caused by human malice.
@anteshell
Жыл бұрын
The line between malice and neglect is being drawn in the water.
@van3158
Жыл бұрын
@@anteshell100%
@BenoitRAG3
Жыл бұрын
I DON'T EAT PICKLES, THEY DISGUST ME!
@gregmeyer9595
Жыл бұрын
This is literally the first thing I thought about when I saw the title of today’s video. (The main comment, not the pickles thing)
@drrocketman7794
Жыл бұрын
Domestic terrorism.
@jaredrobbins4440
Жыл бұрын
I (regrettably) joked about my brother-in-law being from Bath once, and he deadpan told me his great uncle was killed that day. He’s read all the history and could never get over the smile Andrew Kehoe gave people that day as he drove by… This event really wiped out a whole small township generation.
@genesisknight9948
Жыл бұрын
Oof, that must have been a painful wound to open without meaning to
@ethanniedorowski116
Жыл бұрын
Smile? Jesus 😢 what a pos
@drkatel
Жыл бұрын
I would love to know whether Kehoe was less angry & reactive prior to his head trauma. He might’ve been wacky from the start but there’s mounting evidence of major personality/mental health changes following traumatic brain injuries.
@Inexpressable
Жыл бұрын
When he mentioned the head injury I absolutely thought it was gonna be followed by him saying it changed his personality and behaviour. I believe it probably did make him more irrational.
@norsuist
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Charles Whitman, the clock tower shooter who had a brain tumour
@drkatel
Жыл бұрын
@@Inexpressable Yes, it’s hard to believe it had no effect.
@drkatel
Жыл бұрын
@@norsuist Exactly! Charles Whitman’s tumor and both Richard Ramirez & David Berkowitz had pretty significant head injuries by history. At least there’s much more awareness today & more caution in contact sports (but far from enough.)
@paradisebreeze1705
Жыл бұрын
I work with one
@melissaparling4058
Жыл бұрын
I spent a large part of my childhood in the Bath community, thank you for bringing this story to the wider public.
@bigchungus711
Жыл бұрын
I also spent a large part of my childhood in baths.
@mencken8
Жыл бұрын
But none dare call it “domestic terrorism,” too early, right?
@TheeGlocktopus
Жыл бұрын
The Kehoe family moved to Mason afterwards, and their descendants still live there to this day. I went to school with a couple of them.
@fredashay
Жыл бұрын
Sad how such a kind person turned evil. His uncle foreclosing his mortgage and taking his farm while his wife was suffering tuberculosis seemed a bit cruel excessive instead of trying to to work things out. I'd be angry at those circumstances, too.
@BlackMoonHowls
Жыл бұрын
@@fredashay Insensative.
@DeadlinePhil
Жыл бұрын
It's truly horrifying what destruction can result from the wrath of a single person.
@anna_in_aotearoa3166
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Particularly horrible when they choose to target children... 😭 In such a small community, I can only imagine this kind of trauma would've deeply affected a whole generation of residents, even if it's not an incident that is well-known outside that area...?
@carterhicks7441
Жыл бұрын
The scientific revolution didn't help this issue. The power a single man can possibly hold is much greater today than anytime in the past. Terrorist attacks only seem to get worse now :(
@thorin1045
Жыл бұрын
i would think more than one people needed to enact the property tax, the single most destructive form of tax, oh, you meant the guy with the dynamite?
@adamwalkervfx
Жыл бұрын
"Just look what I've done to this city with a few sticks of dynamite and a couple of bullets."
@psychoticax645
Жыл бұрын
“Anyone has the power to change the world” holds true here.
@AshLilburne
Жыл бұрын
Mister Music.. Thank you. Your ability to tell a genuine story yet still have respect for those not quite mentally sound may be misunderstood by the youtube comment majority. But personally, thank you. Respect to all those that suffered
@PlainlyDifficult
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@legion999
Жыл бұрын
Respect, for this Kehoe guy? Why??
@AshLilburne
Жыл бұрын
@@legion999/videos Not sure where you got that narrative from. Enjoy the video! xo
@CaelanAegana
Жыл бұрын
For those of you who are curious: US public schools are still funded by property tax assessments, which are subject to public vote. This is the primary reason why the schools most in need stay the most underfunded, and why local school boards are powerful entities vulnerable to corrupt influences.
@declaringpond2276
Жыл бұрын
not to mention that their public funding is solely based on the districts drawn up for them, which are always drawn to separate race and class
@CaelanAegana
Жыл бұрын
@@declaringpond2276 Not always, but yes there are a lot of states and localities that draw their zones that way. Some states have better laws than others to protect against that.
@declaringpond2276
Жыл бұрын
@@CaelanAegana eh, I live in the Bluest state, california, and it still has redlining district issues.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
I think that's because of childless people and people who's children have grown up that see schools as a waste of money and don't like kids being allowed to exist. Common for established upper class people in this country to have contempt for lower-class children.
@CaelanAegana
Жыл бұрын
@@ryelor123 Hold off on the class warfare, dude. We could make school funding way more equitable just by equalizing per-pupil funding at the state level. Fewer people in the US are having kids because it costs so much money, not because they dislike kids. That's been proven by surveys.
@usagi32211
Жыл бұрын
It takes a special kind of monster to kill innocent children as a way to punish a community.
@jeffkaczmarek3577
Жыл бұрын
So the soldiers who bombed and invaded Iraq are a special kind of monster?
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Not entirely. Northerners at that time tied personal respect to institutional rank and fatherhood. He couldn't attain the latter and lost the former. I'd imagine he hated children because he saw them as a source of respect for other men but something he couldn't have. Since northerners at that time didn't value strangers lower than themselves on the hierarchy, murdering children wasn't considered that serious of a sin. Remember that in his time, forced abortion, child abuse, and spousal abuse were very common yet ignored by society(except early feminists who fought against all 3 of those things). Fortunately our society is more individualistic now which means that we have more mass violence events but the people harmed in them are more often than not not entirely innocent. Either an interpersonal dispute gets out of hand or someone is lashing out at a community they feel is knowingly hostile towards them. As unpopular as it is to say, I think some mass violence is a good thing because it helps make society understand that people need to be better towards each other and it brings to everyone's attention the conflicts which would otherwise go unnoticed in previous societies.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
@@jeffkaczmarek3577 The difference is that the guy in this story was harming his own community and even people close to him. Soldiers in war are harming complete strangers in a foreign land. Also, in geopolitics, the inaction of one party doesn't mean another party is guaranteed peace and prosperity. Iraq was a lot weaker and more messed up than anyone except Saddam knew. Had that war not happened, its likely that Iran would've just conquered everything and became a major problem nation.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
@@jeffkaczmarek3577 If you want to be angry at people in the past, just remember that the Underground Railroad in the 1800s was mainly a child sex trafficking network.
@jeffkaczmarek3577
Жыл бұрын
@@ryelor123Bombing children is never OK, even if their foreigners. 2003 isn't the distant past, the camo costume wearing welfare queens who bombed Iraq are still alive to ridicule, and even worse, those socialist sponges are still suckling from the teats of the taxpayers.
@kawaiiarchive357
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad that people have always been interested in filming events even if it's a tragic one. We shouldn't ignore the past even if it is disturbing.
@Arterexius
Жыл бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree. We tend to repeat what isn't thoroughly shown to be a bad idea
@mynym4543
Жыл бұрын
It’s probably a similar psychological phenomena to why we remember bad memories better or like to watch videos like this one - the more we know about potential disasters, the more our brain can generate plans on how to deal with them if they happen to us. Recording disasters might just be a different expression of that same desire.
@Arterexius
Жыл бұрын
@@mynym4543 I believe you're right
@MarianneKat
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing this video!! I've always lived near Lansing and I was an icu nurse for 30 years at the hospital most of the children and adults were brought to. The nurse's stories still echo in the halls. As news got out thru telephone, the nurses came in to help, some (esp surgical and pediatric nurses) staying 3 days or more on site. I was once privileged to care for a (now elderly) child survivor, his brother sadly died in the explosion. This was one of the country's deadliest intentional bombings prior to Oklahoma City. There is a memorial statue on the school site, along with the bell that used to be on top of the school to this day. Many locals can still trace back to relatives, friends, or neighbors who were lost that day. It was truly devastating. Bath is, to this day, a sleepy bedroom community of the state capitol Lansing Michigan, USA.
@HwoarangtheBoomerang
Жыл бұрын
This guy? @jaredrobbins4440 2 hours ago (edited) I (regrettably) joked about my brother-in-law being from Bath once, and he deadpan told me his great uncle was killed that day
@MarianneKat
Жыл бұрын
@@HwoarangtheBoomerang oops
@enderkatze6129
Жыл бұрын
"Criminals are made, not born" But not all criminals are made by others' actions.
@star-boltlover9609
Жыл бұрын
Maybe someone had some bad genes
@KHAYREE-kc
11 ай бұрын
I don’t get what you mean
@j.k.8773
Жыл бұрын
My best friend has family connections to that disaster, and he does his best to help the museum in any way he can
@Emiliapocalypse
Жыл бұрын
Gee can’t imagine what qualities about this man made him unfit for office
@livetillyoudielovelife2299
Жыл бұрын
Head injurys often change people and not for the better.
@angelachouinard4581
Жыл бұрын
Yes. I thought about that straight away. And the issues are not often obvious.
@annakeye
Жыл бұрын
I guess we don't hear much of the improvements people make after a head injury because it's not that interesting to know that, for example, Ms Smyth's car accident resulted in her learning yoga and a new language. You're unlikely to find a head injury recipient suddenly winning a prize in physics when she'd always been a landscape gardener. Also, the bad news is what is most often reported. Anything good is relegated to the 'human interest' section, as if it is somehow less interesting.
@gaymer42069
Жыл бұрын
He had a caligula moment
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
The field of psychology is still in the "4 humors" era where everything is seen as an illness. However, I wonder if there's a logical reason why people become more dangerous after head injuries. I'm guessing that the body looks at the situation and says "well, I'm not living in a safe utopia so I better be more cruel or my next injury might be my last".
@WildBandit300
Жыл бұрын
I think the brutal taxation at the time and the government scrapping dimes out of people made more of an impact than anything else. I imagine that as artificial inflation rises and people are forced to live in boxes while working near slave-wages 9-11 hours 6-7 days a week, we will see a resurgence of people "changing" for the worse too.
@Merennulli
Жыл бұрын
I'm always amazed at the petty, horrible behavior of some of the people who choose to involve themselves in local government, but as horrible as that has been in the communities around me, I'm so thankful it never went this far.
@davidprice7075
Жыл бұрын
My pastor once used the Bath School Massacre in one of his sermon and was surprised I knew what he was talking about.
@RileyLulich
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering this! I grew up near Bath and it has always broken my heart that nobody seems to remember this horrific tragedy. When I was younger, we would visit the graves of the children to honor them. I hope that your coverage of the massacre will help bring it back into the world's memory.
@frednone
Жыл бұрын
There is no more dangerous animal on Earth than a human with nothing left to lose.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Spelled "lose" wrong. But yeah, that's true. However, the main factor that causes violence and especially mass violence is a perception by someone that they aren't getting respect that's owed to them. Pretty much every one of these incidents comes down to that since sociopaths just prey on innocent people and move from person to person and legitimately crazy people don't tend to commit mass violence since schizophrenia exists to benefit one's society/group and not to turn a person into a weapon.
@Vok250
Жыл бұрын
The scary thing is that this sentiment has not left the American conscience. We literally got politicians in office who hate schools, hate taxes, and hate children. Politicians who call for violence when the vote doesn't go their way...
@LtNomad304
Жыл бұрын
I used to live two blocks from where that happened. I still live in the area. There is a small memorial there today. Most people, even in the area have no idea it happened.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Well, part of the reason they don't know about it is that a lot of people in northern towns moved there from the south or are the children of people who did. Northerners just quit reproducing so, well, finders keepers.
@karadevlieger6560
18 күн бұрын
the cuppola from the school somehow wasn't damaged, it's in the memorial park to this day. and there's a beautiful copper statue of a girl holding a cat in the museum...
@aurasphere647
Жыл бұрын
I've never commented before, but with this one being close to home. It's cool to see a bit of history near by, even if it was a tragedy.
@RunningInLondon
Жыл бұрын
Wow! I grew up in Muskegon Michigan, and now live in Canada. I drive through Bath Township every time I go back for a visit. I've never heard of this. Thankyou! Nice way to start my afternoon. Love from a currently sunny and breezy, northwest corner of London... Ontario 😂😂
@Deweywinkle
Жыл бұрын
I've never heard an inkling of this event before. Crazy how much history like this falls through the cracks. Thanks for the vid!
@WendyDarling1974
Жыл бұрын
He lit the farm stables on fire with the horses in it. With their legs hobbled with wire.
@dennis2376
Жыл бұрын
What a a....hole. His mind was really warped.
@RatPfink66
Жыл бұрын
@@dennis2376 He was determined to leave nothing of value for his creditors. Here's how determined he was. _All along he had enough extra machinery on the farm to settle all his debts._ He just didn't _want_ them settled. _Not ever._ So he wrecked what he could and wired the rest to explode.
@TheJaymon1962
Жыл бұрын
I have a child going into the 6th grade and at first I was not going to watch this. Im glad I did because this person could probably do something like this even today. Please take note of anyone behaving in a manner that indicates self-harm ir harm to others. It's a good first step in countering situations like this.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Anger over a lack of personal respect usually causes most violence. Don't try to wreck the lives of others and stand up to anyone who tries to ruin the lives of others. If you see a Karen trying to get someone fired, make sure she understands that there's no place for her kind. Women usually don't do mass violence so there's literally nothing wrong with being as means as you legally can to any malicious Karen you see. You might even save a bunch of lives.
@littlebear274
Жыл бұрын
I remember Penn and Teller covering this in their episode of school shootings. One thing very, very typical in this case in terms of mass and spree killers is the murder of his wife first. These men frequently begin with domestic violence and mass shootings are often begun with a violent act towards a female family member or held at a place where such a woman is located.
@levanataylor790
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, I always wondered whether his wife's frequent stays at sanitaria were for the purpose of respite from domestic violence.
@captainroyy21
Жыл бұрын
The mind of someone choosing for the most amount of lives lost, instead of less, truly terrifying.
@thirstfast1025
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever covered the Lumpur Sidoarjo disaster? If not, I think it's right up your alley. People blaming their mistakes on natural processes. It wasn't explosive, but it's been devastating. Worth your kind of exposition. Cheers!
@georgesmith8678
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact they were still finding devices on the property. In the late 80s early 90s if I remember correctly. That man was twisted
@RCAvhstape
Жыл бұрын
"Beat one of his animals to death" Well, there's a red flag right there.
@elvingearmasterirma7241
Жыл бұрын
Dude is just red flags everywhere. That head injury mustve knocked something wrong
@cf1925
Жыл бұрын
It's kind of chilling knowing the other explosives under the South Wing didn't go off, otherwise so many more children would've died. Incredible job as always, and keep being awesome! :D
@Kimberlaina
Жыл бұрын
It's not hard, even to this day, to find people in Michigan who were affected by this. My cousin's mother-in-law was a student at this school, but survived because she stayed home sick that day. Her sister was in school and died. My great-grandfather (from another side of the family) owned a business that provided lighting to search for the bodies at night.
@royconestoga7326
Жыл бұрын
That’s what happens when you don’t sort out malignant narcissists.
@cliffsaxon5493
Жыл бұрын
Love To See You Do One On The 1978 Waverly, Tennessee Train Explosion.
@pithball6383
Жыл бұрын
Horrible. Should've been put away for murdering his own damn horse. That alone makes him the worst kind of person. I can't imagine what kind of un-person would decide through each consecutive step of his plan and life to be as evil as possible. I hate how such intellect and talent was wasted on this "man", because if he would've applied his cleverness and substantial assets to any other end, there would be no loss of life. The so-called "suffering" of one sad, disgusting man was cast across an entire town of folks, some of whom were too little to understand why anyone would want to hurt them like that! And now what? Death should come at the end of a long and prosperous life, surrounded by those who love you, not so suddenly and not so soon. Beyond the immediate human wreckage, an event like that scars a nation. An event like that creates division and terror. And do you know what? This community could continue to feel the wrath of this man as his righteously angry victims seek coping strategies, and a small number of those could decide incorrectly to perpetuate the cycle of abuse. I can't say if that's what happened, but similar cases exist. I usually watch John for engineering and safety-related subjects because of the depth of his explanations and the surprisingly intuitive way the narrative provides structure to an otherwise very complex and jargon-filled type of content. This is different, but equally as engaging and helpful in understanding the issues at play (if not to a horrifying degree in this particular video). Very good work.
@RatPfink66
Жыл бұрын
I hate to say it but Kehoe knew he would create lasting torment for so many. Far beyond whatever wrong had been done him. He decided to "become Death, the destroyer of worlds." And in the sleepy little world of Bath Township, he utterly succeeded.
@thebull3206
Жыл бұрын
In the early 50s, along with most horror comic books, lots of salacious magazines were also removed from the newstand, so that as a kid in the 60s-70s seeing those pre-code books was like finding a lost treasure. Case in point, in 1972 I came across a magazine that had many gory pictures of tragic accidents like the Coconut Grove Fire - and that was where I saw photos of this event - and boy were there lots of gory pics. The photos here are nothing like what I saw then. It was hard as a kid to understand how such photos were once openly published, and it really wasn't till the internet age that most of these type photos became somewhat available.
@moomae1
Жыл бұрын
Whoa! Never heard of this one, but what tragedy. Dude was clearly psychotic.
@neuralmute
Жыл бұрын
I think the head injury that put him in a coma for a few weeks might have had a serious effect on his mental stability. It's widely documented that brain trauma can do awful things to a person's cognitive and emotional functioning. Think of good old Phinneas Gage.
@grmpEqweer
Жыл бұрын
@@neuralmute Yep. Head injuries can lead to a host of mental health problems.
@michaellovely6601
Жыл бұрын
@@grmpEqweer With regards to the University of Texas shooting in 1966; the autopsy results revealed the perpetrator Charles Whitman had a rather large tumor (roughly the size of a pecan) at the base of his brain stem. Even today; neurological experts disagree with forensic psychiatrists on whether or not the tumor caused Whitman to act on his violent actions.
@warrensteel9954
Жыл бұрын
This was the first time I've heard of this as well. So tragic.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Violent actions people undertake are almost always tied to the issue of respect. As a northerner at that time, he saw respect as something he could only get by having children and/or moving up the ranks within social or political institutions. He failed at both and thus he turned against the society he was part of. Northerners back then didn't really care about the well-being of other peoples' children since they saw them as people who would only respect their own parents and institutions and not ordinary people. The head injury and his intelligence were probably the things that prevented him from doing what other people would do in his situation: hang out at speakeasies and drink misery away before beating one's wife.
@myaccountgothackedgoogledo7571
Жыл бұрын
the thing that strikes me in an odd way. Is that here you have a man that goes to such lengths not to spend money. Going such great lengths to spend money on hurting the innocent. There is no reason left in this but his vile desire to hurt. Having done what he had set out to prevent by his own hand, spending money on things he had no good use for.
@HwoarangtheBoomerang
Жыл бұрын
Your logic is flawed. That's like a suicidal guy saying, "I won't spend $250 on cyanide pills because it's too expensive."
@myaccountgothackedgoogledo7571
Жыл бұрын
@@HwoarangtheBoomerang not at all. it;s the not yet suicidal man having 300 bucks, getting 50 taxed and then going "well I'm destitute now better go buy a $250 cyanide pill"
@MeriaDuck
Жыл бұрын
Having the coldness of heart to blow up a school 15minutes after school starts, that is beyond terrorism. Not even a warning given, that's really astounding. That coma inducing fall did not do him any good.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
The average northerner of that time would've seen it as understandable. Northerners didn't respect strangers on an individual level and thus they saw a stranger's children as no more worthy of life than a stranger's livestock. That's why things like the Eugenics movement were so successful in the north. It was just a story of a guy who lost the opportunities to earn respect from others and took it out on the sources of respect many of them had that he didn't have(i.e. children).
@BirdieRumia
Жыл бұрын
@@ryelor123 'northerners?' I think most would see 'treating other humans's children as livestock' to be more of a traditional value of the elite antebellum SOUTHERN aristocracy... and implying that the ideas of eugenics weren't plenty popular in the south too is frankly bizarre.
@skyounkin
Жыл бұрын
This has such frightening prevalence today...
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Not entirely. Most mass violence today is due to individuals lashing out at other individuals over personal grievances or against society that they feel doesn't want them. When you consider the contempt that the bourgeois upper class has for the lower class, the business class, and people who move from place to place, its understandable for people to have animosity towards their social setting. However, they tend to blame the wrong people. One reason society can't deal with economic, racial, or ethnic conflicts is that the upper class needs those conflicts in order to remain in power.
@skyounkin
Жыл бұрын
@@ryelor123 Right, J6 happened because of that, and not some traitorous demagogue who desperately wanted to remain in power...
@travisinthetrunk
Жыл бұрын
I’d like to mention that this is the only channel that does ads right. Every other channel has their ads right in the middle of someone talking.
@Artemesia_
Жыл бұрын
For anyone interested in a more detailed account, there’s a book called Maniac by Harold Schechter.
@MightyMezzo
Жыл бұрын
Good read.
@trevorrapp7197
Жыл бұрын
Hi John, I wanted to ask if you'd heard of the Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion. I moved to Cleveland years ago and it feels like a major disaster that isn't well known, even in the area. I'd love to hear your take on it!
@trevorrapp7197
Жыл бұрын
From what I remember, a gas storage tank sprung a leak that wasn't noticed, the gas sunk into the surrounding sewer system and when it ignited it leveled a neighborhood.
@silver-berry
Жыл бұрын
I'd love that! My grandparents and assorted other relatives came to Cleveland from the Old Country, and were living in the area when that happened. I can vaguely remember my Great-Aunt talking about it, but have forgotten most of the story by now.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
I think he did that one.
@trevorrapp7197
Жыл бұрын
@ryelor123 I looked for it from him and didn't see it, but it's entirely possible.
@melasnexperience
Жыл бұрын
Was that the one that happened at an ice skating show?
@daphne8406
Жыл бұрын
I do not care how financially difficult you have it, you do not take your issues out on the innocent 😣 Terrible evil man.
@Tommygunn776
Жыл бұрын
And there was never another scuffle over taxes ever again...
@macaylacayton2915
Жыл бұрын
fun fact:this shared newspaper time with Hindenburg's trans-Atlantic flight.
@SupersuMC
Жыл бұрын
Oh, the humanity!
@macaylacayton2915
Жыл бұрын
@@SupersuMC I had the wrong burg I meant Lindbergh
@davidg5898
Жыл бұрын
I dig the pensive openings you've started using. They really set the mood.
@RinoaL
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering why Bath looked very much like America, I only realized halfway through this was Bath Michigan.
@Scraggledust
Жыл бұрын
Such a long, sad, and challenging history of extreme violence against children. Look out for one another and stay hydrated🥛🚰
@1D991
Жыл бұрын
That AI generated(?) part at the end put my hackles up
@dano8902
Жыл бұрын
Holy crap dude...the story was horrifying enough. Did you have to put that AI generated stuff at the end, too? I swear that's going to give me nightmares.
@RCAvhstape
Жыл бұрын
Seriously, leave that to the disturbing music videos, it's kind of inappropriate for this.
@rhr-p7w
Жыл бұрын
If you have nightmares caused by a simple KZitem video, you reeeeeaaaaaally need to consider growing up my friend
@RobotacularRoBob
Жыл бұрын
@@rhr-p7wThey were pointing out how weird of an outro it is, not meant to be taken literally. And I agree that A.I. generated coffee drinking bimbos don’t exactly fit the theme of the vid.
@Boodieman72
Жыл бұрын
This proves that head injuries have lasting effects as well.
@Ciborium
Жыл бұрын
If only the school district didn't unfairly tax poor farmers.
@grapeshot
Жыл бұрын
Another example of what happens when somebody throws a temper tantrum because they couldn't get their way.
@AshLilburne
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for not quite understanding.
@jeffkaczmarek3577
Жыл бұрын
Someone who was being extorted to fund a project they never wanted, needed or asked for. The government resorts to violence too. Had he not paid his property taxes, armed police would have been sent to his home to evict him and kill him if he resisted.
@grapeshot
Жыл бұрын
@@AshLilburne I understood he killed a lot of kids because he didn't get his way.
@AshLilburne
Жыл бұрын
@@grapeshot/videos And thats fine, I also agree with your point above. But looking deeper is what will eventually separate us from the roborts yano
@grapeshot
Жыл бұрын
@@AshLilburne I did look deeper at the end of the day it was about I can't get my way so I kill everybody.
@fluuufffffy1514
Жыл бұрын
Jesus, that's chilling. We need to take care of each other, it's all we can do
@UnknownFlyingPancake
Жыл бұрын
"if they perceive the world to be against them" is such an irresponsible statement. Plenty of people feel that way, even justifiably, and cause no harm. What is dangerous is when people have a sense of entitlement and a lack of care for other people. He also had easy access to explosives and the school. Brain damage from head injuries are also a common feature of mass killers.
@agarlicsorbet6482
Жыл бұрын
Well said pancake well said
@alisonmeyer4174
Жыл бұрын
I just finished reading a book about this called "Bath Massacre". It's a very good read if anyone is interested.
@spiderzvow1
Жыл бұрын
what happens when a man-child blames everyone else for his own incompetence. Sadly these people are more and more common these days, and a scary amount are in positions of power/leadership.
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Its easy to be condescending towards someone who can't defend himself but you need to remember that he had his own grievances which can be just as real as stuff that happens to you or I. The difference is that we don't act on them. He was a northerner who saw the only sources of respect he could get being either from his own offspring or from institutions. He didn't have the former and he lost the latter. Northern culture doesn't value children if they're strangers and a childless man like him would thus either be a predator or would have anger towards those kids for showing their own fathers respect(thus he'd have been jealous of those men). So to a typical northerner at that time, his life experiences would've really hurt him badly. However, because he didn't take out his frustration in a more productive manner(likely due to that head injury along with his intelligence giving him darker options) his attack made sense to a degree. Remember, the guy clearly wasn't some sociopath since such men are usually very incompetent and they over-rely on abusing others. So his bad actions at least would've seemed justifiable in his own mind unlike most violent men who know what they're doing is wrong.
@artforz
Жыл бұрын
Guy had severe brain trauma. But better not mention it, lest it disturb your fantasy...
@babyspice945
Жыл бұрын
“There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man”
@Alphoric
Жыл бұрын
4:42 he got hit with the worst monopoly chance when you have properties
@hi.moriarty
Жыл бұрын
As always, great content, John!
@minecraftkid50978
Жыл бұрын
i have no idea why but I left for a few hours and came back and when i resumed it started playing the AI yogurt commercial from your other channel I havent even watched that since last week, john you've created something beyond cursed
@bartsanders1553
Жыл бұрын
I didn't know anyone else knew about this.
@jamba622
Жыл бұрын
Faces of the Forgotten covered it on his channel.
@colemarie9262
Жыл бұрын
I was surprised I’ve never heard of this, but by the end I was glad that evil man was utterly forgottten by history.
@brianrigsby7900
Жыл бұрын
5:19 is that an electron microscope image?
@HogMan2022
Жыл бұрын
What a great job of telling such a sad story. I have never heard of this, but i live in the western United States. Thank you for the History lesson. Liked and subscribed.🙋🇺🇸
@parula26
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting story as always. I hadn’t heard of this tragedy; thank you for covering it!
@TsunayoshiSawada469
Жыл бұрын
I cannot explain how angry this makes me
@iamtired4974
Жыл бұрын
Imagine having a niece with tuberculosis and threaten her and her husband with mortgage payments, taking their home and whatnot. The uncle of the year candidate right there. Should have blown him up, not the township stuff :' )
@Motoko_Urashima
Жыл бұрын
I mean, he could've bombed the school at night when nobody was there. He deliberately chose to go for as many casualties as possible.
@iamtired4974
Жыл бұрын
@@Motoko_Urashima I know why he did what he did, I am not sure why are you commenting it here, since my comment had nothing to do with his intentions, but rather tried to point out the baffling figure that was the uncle in the story.
@OGMann
Жыл бұрын
Possibly an undiagnosed tbi related pathology contributed to his behavior. A head injury resulting in a week long coma certainly fits the bill. It's easy to attribute his actions purely to malice; but, that may be overly simplistic. Not much was known about this topic in the 20s and 30s. Today, medical science has advanced to prove tbi can lead to changes in mental health.
@evvk8865
Жыл бұрын
One man ? Always that one guy.
@allisonmagiera1200
Жыл бұрын
I have always been interested in this awful event as someone from michigan ty for posting bae
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, childless men are a very dangerous monster especially when they tie their success to public office.
@beliasphyre3497
Жыл бұрын
That was one of the most disturbing things I've witnessed. The outro I mean. WTF was that?!
@pfadiva
Жыл бұрын
If Kehoe had worked as hard on making money as he did on this revenge, he would have had plenty of money to pay his mortgage. Evil man.
@plasmaburndeath
Жыл бұрын
Ty for taking this suggestion and making the video.
@bertbaker7067
Жыл бұрын
Unfun fact: an estimated 100,000 people drove thru Bath to see the damaged school in the first few days alone.
@lugal-zage-si4782
Жыл бұрын
I live about 10 miles away from Bath. The bombing is still very much in the local consciousness. I even had an aquaintance who claimed to be related to the bomber, dunno if its true though.
@namelessdork2256
Жыл бұрын
...I'm speechless.
@leigha2814
Жыл бұрын
One has to wonder if he did all this due to his TBI, or if he was always that violently entitled and the TBI just loosened his inhibitions.
@samarnadra
Жыл бұрын
Most likely he had some tendencies towards this, a bit from nature, a bit from nurture, but like most people with mental illness and a rough life, he managed just fine without becoming violent, but the head trauma reduced inhibitions and caused mood and behavioral changes, and that plus life situations changing worsened any existing conditions to the point that he snapped. Most people who have TBIs don't turn out like him. Most people with mental illness don't turn out like him. Most people with family and financial issues don't turn out like him. Likely all 3 had to be present and coincide in exactly the right way with someone with the exact right mindset and upbringing for his mind to break in this particular way and him to act on those impulses in this way. Like someone like Phineas Gage who just had a TBI and turned aggressive under the same circumstances might have beat up his wife's uncle, but wouldn't have even considered something like this. Timothy McVeigh had issues with the government and he attacked a government office building (with a daycare, admittedly), not a school. It's a bit like the Swiss Cheese Model in some ways. Factors have to line up in certain ways to have certain outcomes, and even then, when human minds are being modeled instead of things like engineering disasters, you can have a hole closed off for so many weird reasons like not liking the smell of explosives/gunpowder, it being too expensive, being anxious about pain, making a simple mistake, someone coming by for coffee at the right or wrong time, whatever.
@Ozymandias1
Жыл бұрын
This happened exactly 40 years to the day I was born.
@Corium1
Жыл бұрын
what an awful tragedy. its crazy to think this happened in my state of michigan.
@mart0225
Жыл бұрын
Good opening sequence. This one was especially depressing to me.
@JamesBiggar
Жыл бұрын
Maybe I'm just having a stroke, but what's with all the long pauses in the middle of sentences?
@rdbauerle
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for this, my great-uncle died in it 😥 Some comments: Might want to fix the "teRmpered" typo at 3:40. The silhouettes get kind of old/creepy/distracting. IDR Nellie's illness as ever being disclosed. IDR a "scuffle" at Kehoe's car before he set off that explosion. Senator James Couzens helped pay for the new school - it wasn't just the townspeople. IDR "three more stashes of dynamite" being found during the rebuilding of the north wing...
@TheGamer25_plays
Жыл бұрын
Nice Video👍 Can you make a Video about the Killdozer? Also a one Man Revenge
@NicolasChiribelo
Жыл бұрын
Killdozer did nothing wrong. This man was a psycho.
@TheGamer25_plays
Жыл бұрын
@@NicolasChiribelo thats True but you must say it was a one Man Revenge Not from a Physchiotic Guy but from a good Not Crazy Man 👍
@drrocketman7794
Жыл бұрын
The advertisement at the end is creepy
@pilsnerd420
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of another well adjusted fellow who repurposed farm equipment to extract revenge on people he thought deserved it. Everyone calls him a hero though.
@markman278
Жыл бұрын
I just read about this a couple weeks ago and holy shit it’s bad. Clearly a disturbed man who needed help long ago.
@volvo09
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I wasn't expecting him to purposefully target children, what a sicko.
@MustertheBrohirrim
Жыл бұрын
I'd never even heard about this until a comment in the last video mentioned it. All I could say after was, "Holy fuck."
@ryelor123
Жыл бұрын
Its sad and I wonder if there's more to the story. His wife and him didn't have any children so I wonder if she couldn't conceive or if he wouldn't let her have any kids(as wasn't unheard of of men at that time). That could explain why he had such anger towards a school that he felt like his family was the only one that didn't benefit from its existence.
@gwpcs
Жыл бұрын
Raising taxes can be dangerous, just ask the French monarchy.
@ruthstevens8805
Жыл бұрын
Plz do you have more train stories? I learn so much from them.
@Joy-TheLazyCatLady
Жыл бұрын
I feel that this is in a higher tier of evil.
@mrginga4044
Жыл бұрын
I always make sure when I see i a plainly upload that! I have my glasses on and time to sit down and enjoy the show
@jadefalcon001
Жыл бұрын
I was NOT ready for that nightmare fuel outro!
@maxhill7065
Жыл бұрын
Also imagine thinking you could blame this on the county, just because you didn't like to work your farm and couldn't afford mortgage payments and instead bought dynamite
@maxhill7065
Жыл бұрын
Like... Before he ran for election was he just a crochety old man who just did nothing on his farm except experiment?
@jeffkaczmarek3577
Жыл бұрын
Why should someone be forced to work harder to pay for a school that they never wanted, needed or asked for in the first place? Government spends plenty of money on police to use fines and violence against citizens, he was doing the same but for self-defense.
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