On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. We have created no mythology.. What? [3] The recordings were produced on as many as nine Sony TC-800B machines using very thin 0.5 mil (12.7m) tape at the slow speed of 15/16 inches (23mm) per second. This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. Billboards advertising a "World Class Guns & Gear Expo" already peppered the city. [38], The White House released the subpoenaed tapes on August 5. "The hair on the back of my neck stood up" when this thought occurred to her, Hammer says. This is why I've always been more interested in hearing Eric's 'Nixon' tape than seeing/hearing the basement tapes. The final words spoken on the recording are of Harris saying "That's it. Initially, government investigators focused on the tapes concerning the Watergate scandal. Implement it, Nixon said, referring to a secret plan to expand government burglary and wiretapping. 3. colossalwyrm. Kennedy got us in, Johnson kept us in. "For NRA to scrap this and the amount of money that we have spent ". If we have a fuc*ing religious war or oil or anything. The second tape simply contained small amounts of footage of Klebold, Harris and two other boys, presumably in footage recorded for a school project. Is this inside the Harris home???? .. Dylan takes the camera then and begins filming Eric. They came to an agreement, with Jefferson County quickly screening the tapes for them, and then putting them in a vault "indefinitely. LiveLeak: 582_1454202537 - columbine full video 2001 Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. I'm sorry if this is easily obtained information somehow but I haven't found it. Its so strange to me that people rallied round Dylan, and against Eric the outsider. 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. Images of students running from the school were looped on TV. Still, the hypothetical burglary is the only break-in that we know for a fact that Nixon ordered, Hughes says. "[23], A variety of suggestions have been made as to who could have erased the tape. The excerpts are from Peter Langman, PhD. Like in this exchange: MAKRIS: Jim, let me ask you a question. They want us to play the heavy in their drama of packaged grief." Twitter/Mickeysnoel screenshotEric Harris and Dylan Klebold, This tape, transcribed by Langman, has Harris, nickname Reb, driving with Klebold to get gear; two large fuel containers and three propane bottles. Instead, he released 949 pages of previously unreleased documents on the case, including in-depth transcripts for all of the "Basement Tapes," confirming rumors about the previously released footage. Klebold: [interrupts] We did what we had to do. In the aftermath of the shooting, McQueen reasons that "normal" members would stay away from the site of the tragedy leaving only the group's most extreme members as attendees. Just my opinion. Around the same time, leaders discussed how to respond to the shooting at Columbine High School in nearby Littleton, Colo. More than 20 years later, NPR has obtained secret recordings of those conversations. 'Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Huh thats a good question Ive never thought about where they were found, only what they contained. Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the NRA, is seen here in a photo taken just weeks after the 1999 Columbine shooting. 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 . The point u mentioned about eric jokingly mocking his parents' cluelessness about what he was doing confirms they knew nothing. Inside the Supreme Court ruling that made Nixon turn over his Watergate tapes In the short term, it was a disastrous calculation. BAKER: No. 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. [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. [42][43], Once the "Smoking Gun" transcript was made public, Nixon's political support practically vanished. [25][26], Nixon himself launched the first investigation into how the tapes were erased. He addresses and apologizes to his parents, saying theyre the best, and what hes about to do is his and Klebolds fault and not theirs. The shooting was dubbed "the Columbine High School massacre" and the implications and impact of the event continue to be discussed over two decades later. There was another reason Nixon wanted his cronies to steal the Brookings Institution report. While playing the tape on a Uher 5000, she answered a phone call. Tick, tick, tick, tick . Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right). Some one who becomes angry easily . Thank you for your submission to r/Columbine! Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away. He shot lance kirklin with a shotgun in the face, and was the one that visciously called Eric over to Isaiah and said "is that n****r dead, make sure he's dead". I tried to look further into it, and only got links from Cullen's website. She has generally been straight with me." This page was last edited on 9 November 2022, at 23:19. They're just waiting to know. 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. Guess it was a Prelude. 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. I could have blamed them and been the national hero! 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. 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. They want us to play the heavy in their drama of packaged grief. Has anyone seen anything else mentioning it? 39, No. A week before that bombing, the NRA put out a fundraising letter calling the ATF "jackbooted government thugs," and after the bombing, LaPierre had defended this rhetoric. That was a pure creation of mythology. Nixon always suspected former president Lyndon B. Johnson timed the bombing halt to sabotage Nixons election chances. One recorder, labeled as Exhibit 60, was marked "Secret Service" and the other, Exhibit 60B, was accompanied by a foot pedal. . Cabinet Room Recordings: Tape #s 47 - 129. hide caption. Parties and banquets were planned even an appearance by a comedian. The tape was labelled "Top Secret Rampart." Privacy Policy. By July, he was speculating about reviving the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate government whistleblowersor in his words, going after all these Jews. Ever. [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. Dylan adds that they can have his things as well. 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. Evidence Vols. [3] Nixon was not the first president to record his White House conversations; President Franklin D. Roosevelt recorded Oval Office press conferences for a short period in 1940. He states that there are seven and one-third days left, before listing off five names. [8], The tapes contain more than 3,000 hours of conversation. Solicitor General and acting head of the Justice Department Robert Bork fired Cox. hide caption. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? 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. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is on the line, as is longtime NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer and advertising strategist Angus McQueen, among others. 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.. -We know Eric saw a psychiatrist and was prescribed antidepressants.-We know Eric's dad caught him with a pipe bomb and just made him detonate it.-We know the gun store called Eric's home phone to let him know his "ammunition was ready" and Wayne flippantly dismissed them saying he didn't order any.And we know that on the day of the attack Wayne called 911 almost immediately saying, "I think my son might be involved!" 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. A few lines from it were transcribed, and appear in my book. Harris: Morris, Nate, if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room. 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. Good-bye. Reaching for the Uher 5000 stop button, she said that she mistakenly hit the button next to it, the record button. Klebold says, Weve been planning this for over eight months., Then tape then cuts to Harris in his bedroom speaking into the camera. The Nixon Tape and the Clue poster would only tip off their parents, not the investigation. For instance that's not what Wayne said. We are in deep s*** on this deal. Press J to jump to the feed. Here is a quote from it. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Any information I receive regarding this case will be published with source approval and will not be retracted on a whim. Again, they talk about their plans to murder people, before discussing various things such as credit card fraud and tests, and inventing excuses on why they would need certain parts that they were still to purchase for their upcoming attack, in case anyone was to ask them. 10k Lead Tracking. The dilemma they face is apparent in their conversations. The other three tapes, the Basement Tapes, were under a court-ordered seal. The transcript is around 1500 words longer than what was released by Peter Langman. How do you think we got ours? By Brittany Shammas. One tape, later known as the "Smoking Gun" tape, documented the initial stages of the Watergate coverup. [22], In a grand-jury interview in 1975, Nixon said that he initially believed that only four minutes of the tape were missing. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. I've always wondered this,the Nixon tape doesn't really make sense. NB: even the Fly CD he played when he was with Susan Dewitt, now Fly where not exactly conducive with Eric's musical taste,but the titke? In 2006, the court permitted the JCSO to release the tapes if it so chose. 1:20. [3] At Nixon's request, Haldeman and his staffincluding Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfieldworked with the United States Secret Service to install a recording system. He was still awake past 2:00 A.M., three hours before his wake-up call. That fuc*ing shotgun [he kisses his gun] straight out of Doom. "The "Nixon" microcassette tape that Eric Harris recorded the night before the massacre. They struggled with whether to cancel the convention entirely, proceed with a pared-down event or just go ahead as planned. On the tape he explains what his motives are and why he and Dylan are doing NBK. Any thoughts? Videos Of Eric and Dylan Before Columbine. When follower or not, Dylan planned to and did murder people, he turned on everyone he had known his whole life. Comment must be made before we will approve the submission. Mario Tama/AFP via Getty Images When an unknown party filed an open records request to view the unreleased tapes, they received a notice that the sheriff's office "no longer [had] any documents in its possession responsive to [their] request." [11], The existence of the White House taping system was first confirmed by Senate Committee staff member Donald Sanders, on July 13, 1973, in an interview with White House aide Alexander Butterfield. "That's one very good argument, Jim," replies PR consultant Tony Makris. 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. Kissinger responded by blaming Nixon, who had conveniently died in 1994. Klebold: [sticks his face in the camera] Goodbye. Between February 1971 and July 1973, Richard M. Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of conversationsfar more than any president before him. Reb . The "Nixon" Tape. The Basement Tapes were filmed by the murderous architects of the Columbine Massacre. Thirteen people lay dead at a high school in Colorado. They suggest that their story should be made into a film, speculating on whether Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino would direct it. [14] On October 19, 1973, he offered a compromise; Nixon proposed that Democratic U.S. I would love to know this. With that in mind I don't think it's reasonable to conclude Wayne called because he actually knew or believed without a doubt that Eric was involved. The next cut-in shows the two men in Klebold's bedroom, fiddling around with their weapons and securing guns to their clothing (the same clothing that they would die in). The NRA exists in part to advocate for legislation and, often, to make compromises to see bills pass into law. [3] The system was expanded to include other rooms within the White House and Camp David. He didn't get a lot of sleep last night, if any. Woah, I never knew that Eric's dad accused him of taking LSD. NPR has taken steps to verify the tapes' authenticity, including by confirming the identities of those speaking on the tapes with two sources and comparing the voices on the calls with publicly available audio. I don't know about you guys, but I somehow have never come across this before. 3 By Samuel W. Rushay, Jr. This gets at one of the centrally weird things about the Nixon tapes: they allow Nixon to continue offending people and incriminating himself long after his death. He turns to a page where there are figures drawn complete with ammo, bombs, and guns, all labeled. "People will die because of me," Eric said. Nixon was very resentful and sort of jealous of JFK for having been such a popular president, Hughes says. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted . [35] Later that month, Nixon released more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the subpoenaed tapes, but refused to surrender the actual tapes, claiming executive privilege once more. . Members of Congress, one participant says, have asked the NRA to "secretly provide them with talking points. Murderous Minds: Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris - Columbine High School Shooting Documentary. 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. On it, Nixon and H. R. Haldeman are heard formulating a plan to block investigations by having the CIA falsely claim to the FBI that national security was involved. Just after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, gun control advocates rallied at the Colorado State Capitol to protest the NRA's annual meeting that year in Denver. And again it seems to me you don't understand how to play the game. The tape then cuts in and out once again, to the two boys on March 18 "in the middle of the night." Eric is filming. 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. After the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." [31], The National Archives and Records Administration owns the tape and has tried several times to recover the missing minutes, most recently in 2003, but without success. It's at once hard to imagine this took place but can be. Would love your thoughts, please comment. [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. 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. It's a recurrent internal problem with the NRA often its most radical members are also the most passionate, dedicated and outspoken. Telephone conversations were recorded by tapping the telephone lines from the White House switchboard and relaying the conversations to recorders in a closet in the basement of the residence. Columbine Tapes. This also makes me wonder if Wayne Harris saw the tape on the kitchen table before he made the 911 call or if he even noticed it before the police obtained it. 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. I'm sorry if this is easily obtained information somehow but I haven't found it. I think his last goodbye message describes his hatred for the school's jock-first culture. 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. Cookie Notice For more information, please see our It was supposed to be 500 dead and on fire, not 12 dead. His staff created the impression of warm, sweet and nice to people, reads a lot of books, a philosopher and all that sort of thing. Our plan is better, not like those fucks in Kentucky with camouflage and .22s. The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff, produced between 1971 and 1973. This is just the point when she is a bitch, Nixon said. Now keep in mind, I initially read Columbine a bit over a year ago. Authorities have determined that this last piece of footage was taken roughly 30 minutes before the attack.[5]. The content of the three tapes is disturbing, shocking even. Did Dylan Commit Suicide . Ann Marrie Screaming Hysterically in Audio of 911 Call After Friend's Shooting. Sorry. Indira Gandhi and Nixon talking at the White House, 1971. Steven D. Starr/Corbis via Getty Images The content of the tapes was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Columbine investigation during its first few months right up until the point that Jeffco officials provided . In this tape, Harris and Klebold are in the Harris basement-level family room. The public didnt learn hed ordered this until 1997, when Newsweek and The Washington Post transcribed new portions of the tapes. [16] Nixon appointed Leon Jaworski special counsel on November 1, 1973. This can be seen in an April 1971 conversation about John F. Kennedys presidential image versus his own. I specifically remember reading something about the tapes being found in Erics closet with the word CLUE written on the door/above it. Share to Reddit. This is not a time for political discussions or public policy debates." Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. "I was talking to Nickles' office this morning, and what they told me is they're planning on sending them all to school[s] because what they wanted us to do was secretly provide them with talking points," LaPierre says. Someone said that the Nixon Tape was found on the kitchen table at Eric Harris' house, is that confirmed and what about the other tapes? When the footage cuts back in, it is of Harris alone in a moving car, with the camera mounted on the dashboard. A couple of times during the rants Dylan warns Eric to talk more quietly so as not to wake Erics parents who are sleeping upstairs. I know my mom and dad will be just like just fucking shocked beyond belief. This tape was found by authorities in a Sony 8mm video camera with "Columbine High School" engraved on the side (evidence item #200). When Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman suggested that you could blackmail Johnson on this stuff, Nixon said they should steal the report to blackmail him.. White House lawyers first heard of the gap on the evening of November 14, 1973, and Judge Sirica, who had issued the subpoenas for the tapes, was not told until November 21, after the president's attorneys had decided that there was "no innocent explanation" they could offer. John F. Kennedy shaking hands with Nixon before their televised debate in 1960. Privacy Policy. He told NDTV: There was disappointment at the results of the meeting. The first of these two tapes is labelled "Reb's Tape" (Reb being Harris' nickname), and shows footage of the two in the front of a car, stating that "We are on our way to get the rest of our gear", before revealing the date, April 11th, and claiming that "We've been planning this for over eight months". I agree," says Makris. 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. columbine shooting, columbine tapes, columbine videos, basement tapes. Hes wearing black BDUs (military-style pants) tucked into military-style boots. I did not address the belief that Dylan Klebold placed his jewelry into a pile before committing suicide for two reasons: [1] He did not place his jewelry . 11K Witness Testimony. However, at the time of the erasure (probably the Fall of 1973 . When she listened to the tape, the gap had grown to .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}18+12 minutes. (As a 90s kid, it was a common thing to label VHS tapes with a handwritten title or number). LAPIERRE: Do you think they have a preference, Jim? There were a reported five tapes, two of which would later be released; one called Hitmen for Hire, and the other tape of the two shooting at Ramparts Range. Klebold: Hey mom. JCSO Share to Facebook. A 7-hour gap in Trump's calls evokes a missing spot on Nixon's tapes. Press J to jump to the feed. Under different circumstances it wouldve been a lot different. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. She later insisted that she was not responsible for the remaining 13 minutes of buzz. To protect our source and in keeping with prior practice, we did not provide the tape. If we do, its going to hurt us very badly., Prolonging a war for political gain is an abuse of government power, but there was no proof that Nixon had done this until the transcripts became public. Kevin Moloney/Getty Images March 30, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. The Basement Tapes were recorded on a Columbine High School camera. Still, I don't know how I missed this before. Or was it a last ditch attempt to BE caught, he seems to have dropped so many hints and no one noticed. The camera then cuts to a shot later in the day, where the two are talking about their plan in greater detail, bragging about how many people they are going to kill. After the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, he became convinced that that leak was part of a conspiracy that was going to leak his own secrets., In response to this conspiracy, Nixon created a counter conspiracy of his own, Hughes continues. 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. So I'm thinking the Nixon tape was an afterthought,Eric couldn't sleep(can well imagine that with the horror they had planned for Tuesday 20th) Yet why did he feel the need to record it? 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. I remember that CLUE with a picture of a fuse is the last part of the basement tapes. Eric was so obsessed with foreshadowing that most of the leaks or "Clues"(as seen on his bedroom door) came from him. "You know, the other problem is holding a member meeting without an exhibit hall. It was met by thousands of protesters. [3], On February 16, 1971, a taping system was installed in two rooms in the White House, the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room. [28] The panel also determined that the recording consisted of at least five separate segments, possibly as many as nine,[29] and that at least five segments required hand operation; that is, they could not have been performed using the foot pedal. It kinda sheds some new light on what his parent's might've thought about his mental state. the so-called Milk Fund and Watergate trials. But he also knew that this would probably hurt his reelection chances in 1972which is why he delayed withdrawal until 1973. I mean, why why are you giving money? "People will die because of me," Eric said. Yet even though its all out there now, only a small percentage of those tapes have ever been transcribed or published. Read many questions regarding the tapes, but never even considered how they where discovered. This page has been accessed 73,573 times. Goddamn it, get in and get those files. So Im gone. She has generally been straight with me.". ", In 2003, a fifteen-minute recording of the killers shooting at the Rampart Range was released, and in 2004, a short film the two had created for school five months prior to the massacre titled Hitmen for Hire, both of which many people suspected to have been two of the five "Basement Tapes". But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! The panel was supplied with the evidence tape, the seven tape recorders from the Oval Office and Executive Office Building and the two Uher 5000 recorders. "What we're trying to avoid here, I think, is what happened after the Oklahoma City bombing," says PR adviser McQueen. On April 20th, 1999, two students attending Columbine High School, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold, went to their school and killed fourteen students (including themselves) and one teacher, and injured many others.
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