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The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

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Summary

“Mass shooting.” Two words heard all too often in the United States.

There were 656 mass shootings in the U.S in 2023. The one in Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023 was the year’s deadliest — and it may have also been the most preventable.

For the last year, the newsroom at Maine Public Radio has been on the ground investigating, combing through documents, listening to testimony and interviewing dozens of people.

Over six episodes, Breakdown explores the missed opportunities to prevent the shooting, the role of guns and hunting in Maine’s politics, and the aftermath for shooting victims, some of whom were deaf and hard of hearing.

Breakdown is a new podcast series from Maine Public Radio, the Portland Press Herald, and FRONTLINE.

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	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation,
0:03.6	committed to excellence in journalism,
0:05.6	and by the Frontline Journalism Fund,
0:07.9	with major support from John and Joanne Hagler.
0:10.5	In 2023, there were 656 mass shootings in this country, but the one in
0:19.8	Lewiston, Maine was the deadliest and maybe the most preventable.
0:24.7	I warned you about this, and I didn't hold back, not one bit.
0:31.1	Why wasn't the gunman stopped despite multiple warnings?
0:35.0	None of us should be allowed to say that we did enough in this scenario.
0:40.0	Why was this so devastating for Maine's deaf community?
0:44.0	Their friends and family are deaf, their families are deaf,
0:48.0	they use American sign language.
0:50.0	All they want is equity in communication access.
0:54.0	Why is the gun lobby in Maine so powerful?
0:58.0	There's a culture there that supports gun rights
1:01.0	and politically it translates into how people vote.
1:05.0	On October 25th, 2023, 18 people were killed in Lewiston.
1:11.0	We break down what happened and why. From Main Public Radio, the
1:16.0	Portland Press Herald and Frontline PBS, a new series, Break Down.
1:21.1	How the Lessons of Lewiston might help make us safer.
1:24.2	I still get up every morning and I go to bed every night thinking to my son and
1:29.9	trying to figure out why would anything like this happen.
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