I SURVIVED: I'm Either Going To Take A Round Or That Bomb Is Gonna Go Off

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Gwen is a librarian and Lloyd is a Sheriff’s deputy, both are among the 18 hostages held captive by an armed assailant with a dead man’s switch in a Salt Lake City library. Rose discovers she is with child shortly before an intense storm leads to an industrial accident at sea, mangling her legs and endangering her pregnancy. After ending her abusive marriage, Kelly finds herself in even more danger when her ex-husband stalks and eventually shoots her. Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Rosetta Stone: Don’t put off learning that language - there’s no better time than RIGHT NOW to get started! For a very limited time, I Survived listeners can get Rosetta Stone’s Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit rosettastone.com/survived

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0:00.0	This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.0	He shouted that he had a gun and that he had a bomb and that he was going to take hostages
0:12.0	and he told everybody not to move.
0:14.0	Real people.
0:16.0	When the machine came on by the time I thought jump,
0:19.0	I could already feel like my ankles cracking.
0:22.0	Who faced death?
0:24.0	I'm looking down the barrel of the weapon,
0:26.0	knowing the chances are I'm either going to take around
0:29.0	or that bomb's going to go off or both.
0:31.0	And lived to tell how.
0:34.0	I said to him, you know, it's really not too late.
0:38.0	And if you'll just call 911,
0:41.0	I will never tell anyone what happened here. This is I survive.
0:58.0	It's March 1994. Gwen is a librarian at the Salt Lake City Library. She goes to the second floor to watch a ceremony for a visiting artist.
1:02.0	I walked across the floor and I saw that they actually had finished the ceremony and turned around to leave when a man jumped up on the reference desk and started shouting that he had a gun and that he had a bomb and that he was going to take hostages and he told everybody not to move.
1:20.0	I was about four feet in front of him and he pointed the gun at me and said you go in
1:30.1	to the room. The gunman indicated a conference room nearby. I turned to
1:35.7	started walking to the room. I said a prayer. Um, why? You know, it's one of those prayers, a Hawaii prayer. The answer came. It was a very
1:47.1	distinct voice. The answer came, you are needed there.
1:50.1	Next door to the library was the Sheriff's Office where Lloyd was working.
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