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May 18, 1927: Bath, Michigan School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew up the Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in the basement of the school, killing 38 people, mostly children. He then pulled up to the school in his Ford car, then set off a truck bomb, killing himself and four others. - May 4, 1956: in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George’s County after he had been reprimanded from the school. - October 17, 1961: Denver, Colorado Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot at Hachmeister, wounding him. A stray bullet also struck Deborah Faith Humphrey, 14, who died from her gunshot wound. - May 22, 1968: Miami, Florida Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance. - December 30, 1974: Olean, New York, Anthony Barbaro, a 17-year-old Regents scholar armed with a rifle and shotgun, kills three adults and wounds 11 others at his high school, which was closed for the Christmas holiday. Barbaro was reportedly a loner who kept a diary describing several “battle plans” for his attack on the school. - February 22, 1978: Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, a 15-year-old self-proclaimed Nazi, kills one student and wounds a second with a Luger pistol. -
January 29, 1979: Grover Cleveland Elementary School Shootings, California, where 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with a rifle, a gift from her father, killing 2 and wounding 9.
The Cuyahoga River, in Ohio, so polluted it caught fire at least 13 times BEFORE 1969.
Drugs Alcohol. tobacco, Morphine, Heroin, Speed
Child Sexual predators were MORE common than today. It, like rape, especially date rape, was rarely reported in the papers as being to “distasteful” to print.
there has always been crime in society but when I was little we could play outside with out worrying about someone grabbing us, My mom used to leave the 4 of us in the car when she went into the grocery with out worry that someone would grab us, (humm sensing a theme here) but in all we felt safer then. I Never let my grandchildren outside without being where I can see them.
But statistically, you were just as likely to be grabbed when you were a child as your grandchildren are today. Either your parents should have worried more, or you should worry less.
Bingo sleepy2! The preschool molestation craze a few years ago, witch hunting in Africa recently, and Europe in the middle ages, even “fan deaths” in modern day Korea, every once in a while society picks an irrational fear and just runs with it. Any aspiring PhD. candidates reading this? This could be your thesis.
My father and his brother and sister attended Bath School at that time. They didn’t go to school that day because my Grandmother had a feeling that something was seriously wrong and kept them home….I most likely wouldn’t be here to write this if she hadn’t had that premonition.
Ten-year-old Zack now lives with his widowed mother, who runs a boarding house full of oddballs. A hyperactive kid with an overactive imagination, Zack sometimes causes her to pull her hair out as she tries to make ends meet.
Zachary Nixon Johnson by Zakour Dallaire Eagle
Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II
Comments (12) (Please sign in to comment)
Agent54 said, 9 months ago
Always have been gangs and bullies, though out time.
wdpeck said, 9 months ago
Child labor, polio, TB, the Great Depression, etc. Yeah, life was much better then.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 9 months ago
People didn´t worry so much till either parents or the media made a mess of things, and it went out of control.
Miserichord said, 9 months ago
May 18, 1927: Bath, Michigan School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew up the Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in the basement of the school, killing 38 people, mostly children. He then pulled up to the school in his Ford car, then set off a truck bomb, killing himself and four others.
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May 4, 1956: in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George’s County after he had been reprimanded from the school.
-
October 17, 1961: Denver, Colorado Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot at Hachmeister, wounding him. A stray bullet also struck Deborah Faith Humphrey, 14, who died from her gunshot wound.
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May 22, 1968: Miami, Florida Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance.
-
December 30, 1974: Olean, New York, Anthony Barbaro, a 17-year-old Regents scholar armed with a rifle and shotgun, kills three adults and wounds 11 others at his high school, which was closed for the Christmas holiday. Barbaro was reportedly a loner who kept a diary describing several “battle plans” for his attack on the school.
-
February 22, 1978: Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, a 15-year-old self-proclaimed Nazi, kills one student and wounds a second with a Luger pistol.
-
January 29, 1979: Grover Cleveland Elementary School Shootings, California, where 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with a rifle, a gift from her father, killing 2 and wounding 9.
Miserichord said, 9 months ago
Toxic Waste
The Cuyahoga River, in Ohio, so polluted it caught fire at least 13 times BEFORE 1969.
Drugs
Alcohol. tobacco, Morphine, Heroin, Speed
Child Sexual predators were MORE common than today.
It, like rape, especially date rape, was rarely reported in the papers as being to “distasteful” to print.
Jean said, 9 months ago
there has always been crime in society but when I was little we could play outside with out worrying about someone grabbing us, My mom used to leave the 4 of us in the car when she went into the grocery with out worry that someone would grab us, (humm sensing a theme here) but in all we felt safer then. I Never let my grandchildren outside without being where I can see them.
sleeepy2
said, 9 months ago
@Jean
But statistically, you were just as likely to be grabbed when you were a child as your grandchildren are today. Either your parents should have worried more, or you should worry less.
catzilla23 said, 9 months ago
Bingo sleepy2! The preschool molestation craze a few years ago, witch hunting in Africa recently, and Europe in the middle ages, even “fan deaths” in modern day Korea, every once in a while society picks an irrational fear and just runs with it. Any aspiring PhD. candidates reading this? This could be your thesis.
rickmac1937
said, 9 months ago
mr belmont you nailed it.
Comic Minister said, 9 months ago
Lucky for Mr. Belmont he’s married.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 9 months ago
@Miserichord
My father and his brother and sister attended Bath School at that time. They didn’t go to school that day because my Grandmother had a feeling that something was seriously wrong and kept them home….I most likely wouldn’t be here to write this if she hadn’t had that premonition.
burleigh2 said, 9 months ago
@Miserichord
Good proof that insanity exists throughout time… now there are just bigger weapons to abuse that insanity. :-(