'Breakdown' Episode 1: Did we really survive this?

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be a victim? Or a survivor? In a few brief moments in October 2023, 18 lives were lost in Lewiston — and Maine was changed.

For the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected by this tragedy, the ability to heal means understanding what happened.

In Episode 1, we meet several people who are trying to recover — from the trauma of losing a loved one, from being critically injured and from being psychologically wounded. And we learn about the fallout for members of the shooter’s family, who must also contend with his painful legacy.

This is also a story about the possibility for change — how the lessons of Lewiston might help make us safer.

To hear the rest of the series, subscribe to Breakdown on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or stay tuned for more episodes on The FRONTLINE Dispatch.

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0:00.0	I'm Rainierronson Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer of Frontline, and host of the Frontline Dispatch.
0:08.0	Over the next few weeks, we're featuring a new limited series podcast, Breakdown.
0:14.0	Breakdown is a collaboration with Maine Public Radio,
0:17.2	the Portland Press Herald,
0:18.6	and the Frontline Local Journalism Initiative.
0:21.3	You can listen to the whole series here on the dispatch or look for
0:25.3	breakdown wherever you get your podcasts. Here's episode one. The Front Line
0:30.2	Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation committed to excellence in journalism and by the Frontline Journalism Fund with major support from John and Joanne Hagler.
0:40.0	A warning, this story contains descriptions of violence that may not be suitable for everyone.
0:46.0	It's a Wednesday night and I'm driving back from an assignment in Western Maine when two police cars go
0:54.8	screaming past me.
0:56.5	I'm just a few minutes from my house when my husband calls.
1:00.1	He says he's just gotten an alert on his phone,
1:03.3	active shooter in Lewiston.
1:06.2	Before I can absorb what he's saying,
1:08.2	I get an alert telling me to shelter in
1:13.8	we both work in Lewiston and live just across the Andrescagan River in Auburn.
1:19.1	Locals call these the Twin Cities or the other LA, the smaller less glamorous version
1:25.0	less glamorous version about as far from Hollywood as you can get.
1:29.0	We're about 45 minutes north of Portland.
1:32.0	We're not on the coast, not deep in the woods.
1:35.5	These are former mill towns built by French Canadians and other immigrants who came to work in
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