Seven dead, 46 injured: One Chicago weekend
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On Monday 5 August last year the Chicago Sun Times newspaper carried this headline: “Seven deaths, 46 wounded in Chicago Weekend Shootings.” It was referring to the casualty list after one summer weekend in Chicago. This programme reconstructs those three days. Narrated by Clarke Peters (The Wire’s Detective Lester Freamon), and with a specially composed music and sound design, this immersive documentary uses the words of the city newspaper updates on the violence, alongside eyewitness accounts and the sad personal stories of relatives and friends who lost loved ones. ** This programme audio has been updated to reflect the latest events - 28 July 2020
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC World Service. I'm Clark Peters and this is the story of three |
| 0:09.6 | summer days in Chicago last August, seven dead, 46 injured, one Chicago weekend. |
| 0:18.0 | Chicago 911. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, yes. |
| 0:21.0 | My friend just got shy. |
| 0:24.0 | It just pow, pow, and everybody drops to the ground. |
| 0:29.0 | Nearly minute of rapid gunfire. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a reality that we live with daily. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know if he's alive or not. |
| 0:39.0 | How often do I see children caught up in violence every day? |
| 0:43.0 | And he just opened fire on a crowd of park or kids and old people, everybody. |
| 0:49.0 | And by the time I made it from the crime stand to the hospital, they told me he was dead. |
| 0:57.0 | Now to the Weather Watch and here is a live look outside at Grant Park. Well Chicago |
| 1:04.8 | in August is what's seen as the most ideal time to be in this city. We're in the |
| 1:09.6 | Midwest. We're on Lake Michigan, which gives a nice little |
| 1:12.8 | like breeze, but that is the warmest time to be in Chicago. |
| 1:16.0 | Get ready for plenty of sunshine to continue this weekend. |
| 1:19.6 | Mary Kay is here now with an update on the forecast, |
| 1:22.4 | and a great weekend ahead. We get a lot of |
| 1:24.6 | tourists a lot of visitors a lot of big events. It's that time of year Lala Palusa |
| 1:29.5 | is back and for the fourth year in a row it's running. |
| 1:33.0 | On the flip side, that's when we see a spike in gun violence, |
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