The Poe Elementary School bombing was a suicide bombing at a school that occurred at Poe Elementary School in Boulevard Oaks, Houston, Texas, United States on September 15, 1959. Six people, including the perpetrator and his own son, were killed.
Police response
Police responded to find a 6-inch-deep (150 mm) hole in the asphalt "black top" play area. Victims' mangled bodies were burnt; some, including Doty, had their clothes ripped from them by the blast. One girl was blown over 100 feet away.
Police thought the bomber might have escaped and have other bombs, so the school was evacuated. After completing a bomb search, a roll-call by teachers showed that all students were present, except for those dead or injured.
Very little of Orgeron was found. Only small body parts were recovered from the surrounding bushes, buildings and homes. Orgeron's left hand was found in a hedge indicating he had died in the blast. It was used to identify him through fingerprints which were on file from prior convictions.
His nearby station wagon contained explosives and an August 25 receipt for detonators and 150 sticks of dynamite from Grants, New Mexico, where Orgeron had been between leaving Altus and arriving in Houston.
His prior convictions on safe-cracking perhaps explain his knowledge of dynamite.
Aftermath
Unlike school attacks in the early 21st century, there was no constant national and international media coverage of the Poe attack. The school was open the next day,[3] with approximately half of the students attending with increases each day even though cleanup and repairs were underway.[citation needed] HISD named two new elementary schools after victims of the attack: Kolter Elementary School in Meyerland and Montgomery Elementary School in Southwest Houston. Furthermore, a 5th grader of the school, Lawrence Eugene Schacht, was there that day, and would later mention that he felt "angered and betrayed by society for its seeming lack of compassion for the Poe victims, some of whom already suffered from generalized atomic bomb angst." Schacht would later administer over 900 doses of fatal cyanide-spiked flavor-aid in Guyana, during the infamous Jonestown Massacre.
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