Remembering San Jose's VTA Mass Shooting, 1 Year Later

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On May 26, 2021, a Valley Transportation Authority employee in San Jose shot and killed nine coworkers in what became the Bay Area's most deadly mass shooting. As the nation mourns the deaths of 19 students and two teachers killed in a Texas elementary school this week, we remember the victims and the tragedy in San Jose on the first anniversary of the shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for KGBD podcasts comes from Landmark College, offering a fully online graduate level certificate in learning differences in neurodiversity program.
0:09.8	Visit landmark.edu slash certificate to learn more.
0:13.9	Greetings boomtown.
0:15.3	The Xfinity Wi-Fi is booming.
0:17.6	Xfinity combines the power of internet and mobile.
0:20.8	So we've all got lightning fast speeds at home
0:22.8	and on the go!
0:24.3	Learn more at Xfinity.com.
0:26.2	Restrictions apply. Xfinity, Internet required.
0:28.0	Actual speeds vary.
0:30.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:46.9	One year ago today, San Jose experienced the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the Bay Area.
0:53.2	I talked with one of the survivors about the past year.
0:56.0	And then, we'll talk with novelist and journalist Vanessa Waugh
1:00.0	about her new book, Forbidden City.
1:02.0	It's historical fiction about a 16-year-old girl
1:04.0	plucked from a peasant's life in China in 1965
1:07.0	to join a troop of dancers formed to satisfy an aging chairman Mao's love of ballroom dance and teenage girls.
1:14.0	We'll talk about the themes of power and manipulation that resonate across time
1:17.6	and the way Chinese American immigrants carried their homeland's history with them to San Francisco.
1:23.0	That's all coming up next.
1:35.3	Welcome to Forum.
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