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<p>On the day investigators work the scene of the bomb that struck Draylen Mason’s home, 75-year-old Hope Herrera spends the morning caring for her 93-year-old mother. Hope picks up a package from her porch, and it explodes. Six hundred federal agents descend on Austin to work the case and to try to figure out the bomber’s identity, and no one knows where the serial bomber will strike next.</p>

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Episode 3: Hope | Austin Bomber

which is an audio production house at the University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Communication.

Here at the Drag, we teach students how to create podcasts like the one you're listening to right now.

We do that through hiring them for on-campus jobs, bringing them on as interns,

or working with them in our podcasting classes here on campus.

I have students come to me all the time to ask me how they can get involved with the drag

because they want to learn how to be a podcaster.

But none of it's possible without individual donations.

If you want to support these students, and I hope you do,

please visit thedragaudio.com slash donate.

Every penny that you donate to the drag goes toward enhancing student education.

75-year-old Esperanza Herrera is spending the morning like she spends every morning,

The name Esperanza is a Spanish word that translates to hope in English.

She uses both names to introduce herself, Esperanza Hope Herrera.

She's the first in her house to get up every morning.

When her mom wakes up, Hope gives her a bath, and then they go through routine of getting ready together.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	Hey everyone, do you like podcasts?
0:03.6	That's a trick question.
0:05.6	My name's Katie Alka.
0:07.1	I am the Associate Director of the Drag,
0:09.6	which is an audio production house at the University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Communication.
0:15.6	Here at the Drag, we teach students how to create podcasts like the one you're listening to right now.
0:21.4	We do that through hiring them for on-campus jobs, bringing them on as interns,
0:26.6	or working with them in our podcasting classes here on campus.
0:31.0	I have students come to me all the time to ask me how they can get involved with the drag
0:35.4	because they want to learn how to be a podcaster.
0:38.0	But none of it's possible without individual donations.
0:41.6	If you want to support these students, and I hope you do,
0:44.8	please visit thedragaudio.com slash donate.
0:47.8	Every penny that you donate to the drag goes toward enhancing student education.
0:54.0	You're listening to the drag.
0:59.0	It's nearly noon on March 12, 2018.
1:06.0	75-year-old Esperanza Herrera is spending the morning like she spends every morning,
1:12.0	caring for her 93-year-old mother.
1:15.0	The name Esperanza is a Spanish word that translates to hope in English.
1:21.0	She uses both names to introduce herself, Esperanza Hope Herrera.
1:27.0	She's the first in her house to get up every morning.
1:30.6	When her mom wakes up, Hope gives her a bath, and then they go through routine of getting ready together.
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Episode 3: Hope | Austin Bomber

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