"The message that it will send is that even the NRA was brought to its knees, and the media will have a field day with it.". Seated at a desk, she reached far back over her left shoulder for a telephone as her foot applied pressure to the pedal controlling the transcription machine. Tick, tick, tick, tick . Does that look bad, or does it look uh MAKRIS: Well, I mean, that can be twisted too. "Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues, and More Idiots: Not-So-Great Moments in Modern American Politics." He can be heard on the recordings obtained by NPR calling some NRA supporters "nuts.". Her posture during the demonstration, dubbed the "Rose Mary Stretch", caused many political commentators to question the validity of the explanation. Billboards advertising a "World Class Guns & Gear Expo" already peppered the city. But a hard-line faction in the NRA is uninterested in those compromises or any position other than the most expansive view of the Second Amendment. The camera then cuts out and back into the two once again driving, revealing that they had just purchased two large fuel containers, as well as three propane bottles. So it's a double-edged sword.". I think his last goodbye message describes his hatred for the school's jock-first culture. Cookie Notice Still, I don't know how I missed this before. Robert Delfay was the head of an industry trade group. A school bus in 1999 passes a billboard advertising the NRA's annual meeting in Denver, previously scheduled to take place just 10 days after the shooting at Columbine High School. The strategists ultimately decided that canceling their convention would deny them a platform to respond to criticism and also that a cancellation would be an opportunity for attacks by the national media. He says its a drawing of gear, back when we thought we could get calicos. He then points to a picture that depicts two backpacks labeled napalm. He calls this the suicide plan., Video screengrabHarris & Klebold Hitman video screengrab. The two converse for a while, then the tape cuts out again. All this coupled with the fact that Kathy really didn't want the investigators to go down into his bedroom for fear of what they might find makes me think they were far more aware of the potential danger of their son than they let on. His lower half cant be seen. The final of the Basement Tape, reported to have been recorded around 30 minutes before their murderous rampage, is transcribed by Langman. We still don't have a specific transcript for what Eric recorded the morning of the massacre, but the transcript noted that morning message was only a few moments long. These little brown people, so far away, he continued, we dont know them very well, naturally you would say., WATCH: Watergate: The Miniseries on HISTORY Vault. Hammer, a longtime NRA lobbyist who once served as its president, weighs in with an unyielding view. And in those private moments, the NRA considered a strikingly more sympathetic posture toward mass shootings than the uncompromising stance it has taken publicly in the decades since, even considering a $1 million fund to care for the victims. Tips (Interviews) 3. Nixon was furious when The New York Times wrote about the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. The Basement Tapes were filmed by the murderous architects of the Columbine Massacre. "People will die because of me," Eric said. I think we as citizens deserve to have an accurate record of presidential deliberations., However, Hughes notes that because secret taping has become a lot easier in the age of the smartphone, he wouldnt be surprised if we find out that there are other recordings of presidential conversations.. He talks about specific people he will kill. Has anyone seen anything else mentioning it? Go ahead and change the gun laws. The tapes also show that the NRA was shaken by the negative press following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which targeted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and other federal agencies. The transcript is around 1500 words longer than what was released by Peter Langman. However, a shocking realization took me in a different and much simpler direction. Kennedy got us in, Johnson kept us in. 3 By Samuel W. Rushay, Jr. The content of the three tapes is disturbing, shocking even. We have created no mythology.. Those kids were only trying to be accepted by others. hide caption. (Richard Nixon Library) Earlier this year, on July 11, 2007, the privately run Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, was . Inside the Supreme Court ruling that made Nixon turn over his Watergate tapes In the short term, it was a disastrous calculation. [10] Hundreds of hours are of discussions on foreign policy, including planning for the 1972 Nixon visit to China and subsequent visit to the Soviet Union. [32] Corporate security expert Phil Mellinger undertook a project to restore Haldeman's handwritten notes describing the missing 18+12 minutes,[33] but that effort also failed to produce any new information. [8] All audio equipment was sound-activated, except in the Cabinet Room. ", Over the next two decades, this unapologetic message would come to define the NRA's tone in the wake of mass shootings at American schools. From February 1971 to July 1973, a secret taping system recorded conversations in the White House. Is it known where exactly the tapes were found? At the end of the document was a partial transcript of the "Nixon Tape," but only the portion of the interview Eric had with Nixon. [3] The system was turned off on July 18, 1973, two days after it became public knowledge as a result of the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee hearings. [1], In February 1971, a sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Wilson desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders[2] to capture audio transmitted by telephone taps and concealed microphones. [48] However, as Nixon had been dead for four years at the time of the court ruling, it may have been a moot development after years of legal battles over the tapes. Nixon recordings are numbered by location of the original recording. Weapons can be seen on the floor, such as pipe bombs (which Harris begins to describe in detail), as well as two guns (a sawn-off shotgun and a carbine) and two boxes of bullets. The language was Nixon language.". Implement it, Nixon said, referring to a secret plan to expand government burglary and wiretapping. The tape then ends.[3]. This page is focused on the tragedy as well as its perpetrators so we can try to better understand the psychology and motives behind this horrific event. NPR reached out to the NRA and provided it with transcripts of the audio we used in this story. We are in deep s*** on this deal. Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right). They want us to play the heavy in their drama of packaged grief, to provide riveting programming to run between commercials for cars and cat food," Heston said at the time to applause. It wouldnt have been too bad, Nixon guessed. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are once more in the family room of the Harris home. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. This tape was found by authorities in a Sony 8mm video camera with "Columbine High School" engraved on the side (evidence item #200). Columbine High School mass murderers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold on the day of the rampage in the school's cafeteria. Lead Investigator Kate Battan told me there is nothing else significant on it. "Made that point earlier. [8] Significant phone lines were tapped as well, including those in the Oval Office, Old Executive Office Building and the Lincoln Sitting Room, which was Nixon's favorite room in the White House. This quote isnt an order from Nixon to break into the Watergateits an order to break into the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Nixon was afraid that there was a report on the 1968 bombing halt that might contain information on his own illegal attempts to sabotage the start of peace talks to end the Vietnam War, Hughes says. I would love to know this. [37], Sirica, acting on a request from Jaworski, issued a subpoena for the tapes of 64 presidential conversations to use as evidence in the criminal cases against indicted former Nixon administration officials. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Blow the safe and get it.'. ROBINSON: No, I'm talking about something concrete PR CONSULTANT TONY MAKRIS: Like a victims fund ROBINSON: Yeah, we create a victims fund, and we, uh, we give the victims a million dollars or something like that, uh. Parties and banquets were planned even an appearance by a comedian. For links, please explain why you think this is important, summarize or comment on it's content. Kissinger responded by blaming Nixon, who had conveniently died in 1994. Reb . By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Newspaper Articles: Nixon tape mentioned, CBI Searches Harris's Prelude, "Mark John Doe" pleads guilty to selling Klebold the TEC-9 & Harris Ammo. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Any information I receive regarding this case will be published with source approval and will not be retracted on a whim. Years later, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig speculated that the erasures may conceivably have been caused by Nixon himself. wince at the taste. Columbine Tapes. [7], Just prior to assuming office in January 1969, President Nixon learned that his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, had installed a system to record his meetings and telephone calls. Nixon was very resentful and sort of jealous of JFK for having been such a popular president, Hughes says. [34], On April 11, 1974, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary subpoenaed the tapes of 42 White House conversations. Sure, the North Vietnamese would have probably slaughtered and castrated two million South Vietnamese Catholics, but nobody would have cared. NPR has obtained more than 2 1/2 hours of recordings of those private meetings after the Columbine shooting, which offer unique insight into the NRA's deliberations in the wake of this crisis and how it has struggled to develop what has become its standard response to school shootings ever since. There are several bags on the floor, including a large maroon one. Harris: Susan, [referring to his friend] sorry. Now keep in mind, I initially read Columbine a bit over a year ago. 10k Lead Tracking. The excerpts are from Peter Langman, PhD. And again it seems to me you don't understand how to play the game. . Images of students running from the school were looped on TV. The tape then finishes. Its gonna be like fucking Doom man after the bombs explode. Several sources who have seen the tapes, including various family members of the deceased, claim the total run-time to have been roughly three to four hours. From the time that the federal government seized his records until his death, Nixon was locked in frequent legal battles over control of the tapes. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Here is a quote from it. It has not been released. i would love to find out the answer of this. You remember Hustons plan? On the tape he explains what his motives are and why he and Dylan are doing NBK. Although theres evidence Nixon directed his plumbers to commit crimes and evidence he tried to cover-up his administrations role in the Watergate break-in, no ones ever found concrete evidence proving Nixon ordered the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate. Is it known where exactly the tapes were The shooters' parents, as well as many families of the shooters' victims, all supported the suppression and destruction of all the tapes.[2]. I never knew that, Yes the Nixon tape was found on the kitchen table in Erics house but idk about the rest I think i read somewhere that some tapes were found in one of their cars but I honestly don't know, Wouldn't make any sense to keep them in the car if they wanted them to be scene cause they were gonna blow up there cars, Why does that table look like it is set to host a girls birthday party (pink plastic tablecloth and fancy cupcakes). These home videos are what nightmares are made of and tragically, visual documentation of what Columbine High School mass murderers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would do on April 20, 1999. Like in this exchange: MAKRIS: Jim, let me ask you a question. We can't have it knocked overbrutallyto put it brutallybefore the election, he said; and Nixon responded, That's right. In the last months before the election, Nixon told Kissinger, South Vietnam probably can never even survive anyway; and I dont want it before the election with a Thiu blowup. Powered by. They struggled with whether to cancel the convention entirely, proceed with a pared-down event or just go ahead as planned. https://www.researchcolumbine.com/topics-basement-tapes.phphttps://www.researchcolumbine.com/topics-eric-nixon-tape.php, I've not formatted the "Basement Tapes" page much because I am planning a 2022 release and don't want to redo my work. COLUMBINED.com; DOCS . I've always wondered this,the Nixon tape doesn't really make sense. 39, No. The NRA strategists on the call sounded shaken and panicked as they pondered their next step into what would become an era of routine and horrific mass school shootings. [44], After Nixon's resignation, the federal government took control of all of his presidential records, including the tapes, under the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974. The content of the three tapes is disturbing, shocking even. 3. "The fruitcakes are going to show up. President Lyndon Johnson meeting with presidential candidate Richard Nixon at the White House onJuly 26, 1968. In December 1999, Time Magazine reporter Tim Roche was given access to five videotapes recorded by the murderers that investigators had discovered, outlining their motives and reciting a "kill list" of sorts, amongst other things. Great question, honestly. In February 1971, a sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Wilson desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders to capture audio . [38] The 80 ruling (Justice William Rehnquist recused himself because he had worked for attorney general John N. Mitchell) in United States v. Nixon found that President Nixon was wrong in arguing that courts are compelled to honor, without question, any presidential claim of executive privilege. 2.3.2Nixon tape 3Weaponry Toggle Weaponry subsection 3.1Guns 3.2Explosives 3.2.1Pipe bombs 3.2.2Cafeteria bombs 3.2.3Car bombs 3.3Knives 4The massacre Toggle The massacre subsection 4.1Planting the bombs 4.211:19 a.m.: Shooting begins 4.311:22 a.m.: Police response and West Entrance shootouts 4.411:29-11:36 a.m.: Library massacre FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. I'm sorry if this is easily obtained information somehow but I haven't found it. (sorry but as a car guy i find that interesting), there are photos of the car maybe u can determine what it is exactly, I checked out the pics and home video. Harris: [eventually] Thats it. That was a pure creation of mythology. https://lostmediawiki.com/index.php?title=The_Basement_Tapes_(partially_found_Columbine_killers_video_diary;_1999)&oldid=197604. We need to get a chain reaction going here. [4], The tapes' existence came to light during the Watergate scandal of 1973 and 1974, when the system was mentioned during the televised testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield before the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee. [13], President Nixon initially refused to release the tapes, putting two reasons forward: first, that the Constitutional principle of executive privilege extends to the tapes and citing the separation of powers and checks and balances within the Constitution, and second, claiming they were vital to national security. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! A subreddit focused on constructive discussion to better understand the events that took place surrounding the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. They continue showing off their arsenal of weapons, whilst making subtle references to their planned massacre. For instance that's not what Wayne said. I cant help it. Just know Im going to a better place. He didn't get a lot of sleep last night, if any. [1], However, in February 2015, word surfaced that the unreleased tapes had been approved for destruction by Sheriff Ted Mink of Jefferson County, Colorado in 2011. Columbine Shooting Police Audio, Channel 1 Tape 1; Part two. [3] Three months later, microphones were added to President Nixon's private office in the Old Executive Office Building and the following year microphones were installed in the presidential lodge at Camp David. A subreddit focused on constructive discussion to better understand the events that took place surrounding the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. According to Haig, the president was "spectacularly inept" at understanding and operating mechanical devices, and in the course of reviewing the tape in question, he may have caused the erasures by fumbling with the recorder's controls, though Haig could not say whether the erasures had occurred inadvertently or intentionally. LiveLeak: 582_1454202537 - columbine full video 2001 Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Thank you for your submission to r/Columbine! Seems like Eric was screaming for his parent's attention and just never got it. Good-bye. Audio recordings from within the White House during the presidency of Richard Nixon, History of the Nixon White House taping system, Slansky, Paul. Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. Still, the hypothetical burglary is the only break-in that we know for a fact that Nixon ordered, Hughes says. One day after the shootings, the NRA's top executives, officials, lobbyists and public relations strategists all scrambled on to a conference call to deal with the crisis. official Columbine report, so they are public. [14] On October 19, 1973, he offered a compromise; Nixon proposed that Democratic U.S. He spoke into a micro-cassette recorder, indicating that there were fewer than nine hours to go. Nixon knew that he couldnt win the Vietnam War, and that as soon as American troops pulled out, Nguyn Vn Thius U.S.-backed government in the south would fall to the north. He states that there are seven and one-third days left, before listing off five names. Murderous Minds: Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris - Columbine High School Shooting Documentary. The shooting was dubbed "the Columbine High School massacre" and the implications and impact of the event continue to be discussed . Shortly afterward, Klebold takes the camera and aims it at Harris, who is now holding the guns. Nixons recorded conversations with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger during that time reveal their clear disrespect for the first (and so far, only) female prime minister of India. My guess is that Eric simply restated what he said on the "Basement Tapes" and in his journals about how people are going to pay for what they've put him through and how hard his life has been. It can be twisted, but we feel sympathetic and NRA SPOKESPERSON BILL POWERS: Respectful. The families of the victims did not want the tapes to be released, but Time magazine was given access to them, albeit without the families okay. The political reaction to the erasure of 18 1/2 minutes of the June 20 tape seriously eroded Nixon's already-poor credibility. One recorder, labeled as Exhibit 60, was marked "Secret Service" and the other, Exhibit 60B, was accompanied by a foot pedal. After 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech in 2007: "This is a time for people to grieve, to mourn, and to heal. 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