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Witness History

The Columbine massacre

Witness History

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On April 20th 1999 a mass shooting in the USA shocked the world and started a devastating trend of violence in American schools. 13 people were killed and more than 20 were injured by two armed school students. Ashley Byrne has been speaking to Craig Scott, who survived the Columbine massacre but whose sister Rachel was killed that day.

Photo: Students from Columbine High School run under cover from police, following a shooting spree by two masked teenagers. April 20th 1999. Credit: Mark Leffingwell/AFP/Getty Images.

Transcript

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1:04.7

sounds hello you're listening to the Witness History Podcast the BBC World

1:09.3

Service I'm Ashley Byrne and today I'm taking you back to 1999 and a mass shooting in the United States

1:15.8

which shocked the world and started a devastating trend of violence in schools.

1:20.3

I've been speaking to Craig Scott about surviving the Columbine Massacre.

1:25.0

I just started just screaming and crying and telling him not to shoot me and so he shot the girl

1:32.3

and she shot her in the head in front of him. And so he shot the girl.

1:33.0

She shot her in the head in front of me.

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