Title: The Deadliest Mass Killings in American History by a Lone Shooter | History News  Network
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Content: Nota Bene: In the wake of the Orlando shooting the media received criticism for saying this was the worst mass shooting in American history. Critics objected that the list should also include the attack on pioneers killed by Mormons in 1857 that left 120 dead, the Wounded Knee Massacre that took the lives of some 300 Native American men, women and children, among others.) A little lower down the list would be the latest mass shooting: the slaughter of 17 children and teachers at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. The Bath School disaster remains the deadliest mass killing in American history. On May 18, 1927, Andrew Philip Kehoe, a farmer, engineer, and sometime elected official in Bath Township, Michigan, murdered his wife, fire bombed his own house, bombed the Bath Consolidated School – killing thirty-eight people in one fell swoop – then drove to the school in his truck and detonated a hidden bomb in the vehicle, killing himself and several others. A total of 45 people (including Kehoe) were killed. The motive was evidently revenge for losing an election for the position of township clerk. Seung-Hui Cho's rampage across the Virginia Tech campus remains the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.