Episode 236: The Uvalde school shooting - Part One
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4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to terrifying.
Videos:
- Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response
- Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics
- Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something
- Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post
- Ballistic Gel Human Head VS 223
- Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting
Articles and books:
- Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.
- Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary
- Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review
- Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come
- Texas cops’ claims unravel: Police didn’t "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents
- Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre
- Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
- Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her
- NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting
- Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
- The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s
- Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here’s who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand
- Uvalde school shooter’s self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community
- Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting
- Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report
- 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas
- Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'
- Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response
- The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today, I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. For starters, paid requests are now reopened. If you're interested in submitting a disaster request, please double-check the list of requests I most recently posted to the podcast, Facebook and Tumblr accounts to make sure your request has not already been made. Also, please look |
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| 0:40.8 | If you have an idea for an episode subject but you're not sure if it qualifies, feel free to message me and I can approve one way or another. |
| 0:47.7 | I can make things a lot easier for you right now. I will not be covering the entirety of 9-11 or Titanic because they are very large and considering |
| 0:56.8 | how much would be involved in covering them. |
| 0:59.7 | It would take me a very long time and be very difficult to do. |
| 1:04.0 | So I probably won't be doing those in their entirety. |
| 1:07.4 | Maybe bits and pieces. |
| 1:08.4 | I have done some parts of 9-11 so far, but not the whole thing. As for |
| 1:14.8 | Titanic, it's been covered a lot, so it really shouldn't be an issue. As for things that lean a |
| 1:20.6 | little bit too much into true crime, I probably won't be doing those. I know that there are quite a lot of true crime podcasts out there, and I know that what I'm |
| 1:31.3 | going to be doing today is true crime. |
| 1:33.4 | However, there are not a lot of podcasts that will cover mass shootings, and I do consider |
| 1:39.6 | them disasters, considering their high death tolls. |
| 1:42.7 | So with that in mind, I will cover mass shootings, |
| 1:48.2 | terrorism, those sorts of things. But when it comes to specific crimes, I feel like those sorts of |
| 1:54.8 | things should probably be kept to true crime podcasts. But when it comes to things like plane |
| 2:00.2 | crashes, tornadoes, hurricanes, |
| 2:03.6 | earthquakes, everything from that to financial disasters, movie disasters, things that are, |
| 2:11.6 | you know, that just failed, just absolute failures, those things I will usually cover cover if you can give me a really good argument for that. |
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