Episode 63: The Edmond post office shooting

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When someone says a mass shooter was "going postal," the term goes back to a series of workplace shootings in the United States postal service going back to the mid-1980s. The deadliest of those took place in Edmond, Oklahoma, when an unsettling middle-aged man walked into work on August 20, 1986, with three guns in his mailbag.

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1:19.0	Also, as per usual, when I cover these mass shootings, I will try to use the shooter's name as
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1:25.6	I do have to use it a couple of times to describe a nickname the shooter had, and part of that
1:31.5	nickname is an ablest slur, so fair warning.
1:35.6	With all of that taken care of, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster
1:40.4	area.
1:48.0	Episode disaster area. Episode 63.
1:50.2	The Edmund Post Office Shooting.
1:52.7	August 20, 1986.
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