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Deadly bomb attack took place at Houston’s Poe Elementary on Sept. 15, 1959


September 15, 2020

HOUSTON (KTRK) — It was Sept. 15, 1959, when an ex-convict, 49-year-old Paul Orgeron, showed up on the campus of Edgar Allen Poe Elementary with his 7-year-old son and a suitcase packed with dynamite. He was angry that he couldn’t enroll his son in school because he didn’t have the proper paperwork. Orgeron handed a teacher a note and then …

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