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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

Breakdown in Maine

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Public investigate the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history and the missed opportunities to prevent it. The documentary examines breakdowns with police, military and mental health care in the lead-up to the Lewiston shooting in October 2023.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.

0:05.8

We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you listen.

0:10.6

Right now, here is the audio cast of Breakdown in Maine.

0:14.3

Music A mass casualty event playing out in Lewiston, Maine.

0:39.9

In collaboration with Maine Public Radio and the Portland Press Herald,

0:44.3

an investigation into Maine's deadliest mass shooting.

0:47.9

In the lens of hindsight, I absolutely would have done things differently had I known what was going to happen in October.

0:53.8

We need to learn more about exposures in the military, not just. would have done things differently had I known what was going to happen in October.

1:00.1

We need to learn more about exposures in the military, not just in combat, but in training.

1:07.0

This wasn't one breakdown. This was a series of mistakes, and all of these put together put us on the track to Lewiston. A woman using American sign language says,

1:11.8

it makes me angry.

1:13.2

He could have been stopped before he got worse.

1:15.7

Now, as part of Frontline's Local Journalism Initiative,

1:19.6

Breakdown in Maine.

1:22.8

Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station

1:26.6

from viewers like you.

1:28.3

Thank you.

1:29.3

And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1:32.3

Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.

1:37.3

Park Foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.

1:42.3

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,

1:45.0

committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More at Macfound.org.

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