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Today, Explained

What if we saw the gunshot wounds?

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

John Temple was the editor of Rocky Mountain News in April 1999, when two students committed mass murder at Columbine High School. The photos he published that day would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and enrage Daniel Rohrbough’s mom. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

No, well, we've been doing guns all week on today explained and we have one left to go and it's a bit of a doozy.

0:07.8

What's it about?

0:09.0

It's about this debate that's taking place in the United States right now as to whether we need to take more drastic measures to prevent these mass shootings at schools.

0:18.8

Whether we need to show images of what's happening to these bodies when they're shot by assault rifles.

0:27.4

Yes, I've read off-eds about this debate.

0:29.5

Yeah, and we don't really want to entertain any hypotheticals today.

0:32.9

This stuff is tough enough.

0:34.4

We're actually going to talk to a guy who had to make a decision like this over 20 years ago during Columbine.

0:41.1

And what did he decide to do?

0:43.0

He published a photo.

0:44.3

He published a photo and he didn't know what the kid's name was and he didn't ask the parents, but he published it anyway.

0:51.2

The episode isn't for the faint of heart.

0:53.6

I will say it's not very graphic.

0:55.3

It's more just the decision he made and the repercussions.

0:58.1

Okay, let's listen.

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