HOUSTON – On this day in 1959, six people, including teacher Jennie Kolter, were killed when Paul Orgeron walked into Poe Elementary School in southwest Houston with a suitcase of dynamite.
He was angry because he was not allowed to enroll his son in second grade because he did not have birth and health certificates for the boy.
Orgeron said he would return the next day with the documents. Instead he returned with the suitcase.
Orgeron and his son, Dusty, were killed in the blast, along with two students -- William S. Hawes Jr. and John Cecil Fitch Jr. -- and custodian James Montgomery and Kolter.
Twenty others, mostly children, were injured.
Kolter Elementary School in Meyerland opened in 1960 and is named in honor of Jennie Kolter.