Murderous Minds: Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris - Columbine High School Shooting Documentary. ", 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. Here is a quote from it. Kennedy was cold, impersonal, he treated his staff like dogs, particularly his secretaries and the others, Nixon said. The content of the three tapes is disturbing, shocking even. In a statement accompanying the release of the tape, Nixon accepted blame for misleading the country about when he had been told of White House involvement, stating that he had a lapse of memory. Press J to jump to the feed. And so anything we do here is going to be a matter of trying to decide the best of a whole bunch of very, very bad choices.". Where in the home is a good question. 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. It kinda sheds some new light on what his parent's might've thought about his mental state. 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. LAPIERRE: Do you think they have a preference, Jim? 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. LaPierre claims that Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles, R-Okla., had secretly asked him for talking points to use after the shooting. [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. This is why I've always been more interested in hearing Eric's 'Nixon' tape than seeing/hearing the basement tapes. Press J to jump to the feed. For the duration of the phone call, about five minutes, she kept her foot on the device's pedal, causing a five-minute portion of the tape to be rerecorded. What? He initially lost several cases,[47] but the courts ruled in 1998 that some 820 hours and 42 million pages of documents were his personal private property that must be returned to his estate. "Made that point earlier. [6], On August 19, 2013, the Nixon Library and the National Archives and Records Administration released the final 340 hours of the tapes that cover the period from April 9 through July 12, 1973. Lead Investigator Kate Battan told me there is nothing else significant on it. Senator John C. Stennis review and summarize the tapes for accuracy and report his findings to the special prosecutor's office. In December 1999, Time . Robert Delfay was the head of an industry trade group. Has anyone seen anything else mentioning it? All Rights Reserved. While playing the tape on a Uher 5000, she answered a phone call. hide caption. An overview of the history of the "Basement Tapes," courtesy of acolumbinesite.com. Skip to main content. hide caption. 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. Still, the hypothetical burglary is the only break-in that we know for a fact that Nixon ordered, Hughes says. "People will die because of me," Eric said. For more information, please see our Please enable JavaScript to pass antispam protection!Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser http://www.enable-javascript.com.Antispam by CleanTalk. 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.. 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. Nixon recordings are numbered by location of the original recording. Kevin Moloney/Getty Images The Basement Tapes (partially found Columbine killers video diary; 1999), Evidence item #265 (One 8mm tape, recorded mid-March 1999), Evidence item #298 (Two 8mm tapes, one recorded April 11th, 1999, one date unknown), Evidence item #333 (One 8mm tape, recorded late March to April 20th, 1999), Lost advertising and interstitial material. 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? Good-bye. Well, you're true. The NRA's public relations gurus weren't just worried about the propriety of the gun show, either. i would love to find out the answer of this. Go ahead and change the gun laws. A report from NPR lets us listen in on hours of private NRA meetings held in the wake of the 1999 Columbine . 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. 3:42. 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. It has not been released. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Klebold: [sticks his face in the camera] Goodbye. The Columbine shooting in Littleton, Colo., was at the time the deadliest school shooting since the late 1960s, threatening to provide a tragic backdrop to the NRA's previously scheduled annual convention in Denver. "People will die because of me," Eric said. Harris: We need a fuc*ing kick start. 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. About sixty hours of Richard Nixon's White House tapes will be opened by the National Archives sometime in 1989. I've always wondered this,the Nixon tape doesn't really make sense. The second tape simply contained small amounts of footage of Klebold, Harris and two other boys, presumably in footage recorded for a school project. Everyone I love, Im really sorry about all this. And don't worry, I won't delete this content in 24 hours. [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. [19] Nixon claimed not to know the topics discussed during the gap. Any thoughts? Share to Popcorn Maker. 4. I think his last goodbye message describes his hatred for the school's jock-first culture. "You know, the other problem is holding a member meeting without an exhibit hall. Those kids were only trying to be accepted by others. Kissinger responded by blaming Nixon, who had conveniently died in 1994. On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to release the tapes. Harris: Yea . Shortly afterward, Klebold takes the camera and aims it at Harris, who is now holding the guns. 10k Lead Tracking. Is it known where exactly the tapes were found? "Bombthreat before she blows" coincidence. 3 By Samuel W. Rushay, Jr. Harris tells Klebold to "say it now," prompting Klebold to begin giving a goodbye message to his friends and family. Videos Of Eric and Dylan Before Columbine. Bush publicly resigned as an NRA member in protest. see full image 1 / 3 The tapes of the NRA discussions were recorded secretly by a participant and shared on the condition that the participant's name not be divulged. The final words spoken on the recording are of Harris saying "That's it. And, and it's gonna, it's gonna be the worst thing you can imagine.". [42][43], Once the "Smoking Gun" transcript was made public, Nixon's political support practically vanished. Reb . The people you are most likely to get in that member meeting without an exhibit hall are the nuts," says LaPierre. [20] Haldeman's notes from the meeting show that among the topics of discussion were the arrests at the Watergate Hotel. He didn't get a lot of sleep last night, if any. 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. "Screw the insurance," says Hammer. [3] At Nixon's request, Haldeman and his staffincluding Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfieldworked with the United States Secret Service to install a recording system. And as you can see, the final tape was inside the camera, so wherever that was. By Brittany Shammas. They came to an agreement, with Jefferson County quickly screening the tapes for them, and then putting them in a vault "indefinitely. Sure, the North Vietnamese would have probably slaughtered and castrated two million South Vietnamese Catholics, but nobody would have cared. 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. When the transcript of Nixon and Kissinger talking about Gandhi became public in 2005, it became front-page news in India and drew rebukes from the countrys government. The two converse for a while, then the tape cuts out again. Its gonna be like fucking Doom man after the bombs explode. I cant help it. Parties and banquets were planned even an appearance by a comedian. On the tape he explains what his motives are and why he and Dylan are doing NBK. There, he says: "NOT IN THE COLUMBINE GUIDE: [.] Nixon refused, and Jaworski appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to force Nixon to turn over the tapes. 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. Harris recorded over a portion of the original tape stating, "It is less than nine hours now. (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. We had the idea before the first one ever happened. This tape was found by authorities in a Sony 8mm video camera with "Columbine High School" engraved on the side (evidence item #200). There, he says: "The "Nixon" microcassette tape that Eric Harris recorded the night before the massacre. The camera then cuts out and back in, still showing Harris holding the guns, but in different clothing. Eric was so obsessed with foreshadowing that most of the leaks or "Clues"(as seen on his bedroom door) came from him. 3. Nixon always suspected former president Lyndon B. Johnson timed the bombing halt to sabotage Nixons election chances. Theyre drinking Jack Daniels and talking about their anticipated notoriety and their hopes their videos would be shown globally. If we have a fuc*ing religious war or oil or anything. Kissinger responded that the Indians are bastards anyway, and agreed that Gandhi was a bitch. A little later, Nixon added, we really slobbered over the old witch.. Because their story needs a villain. To protect our source and in keeping with prior practice, we did not provide the tape. I always assumed it was on a poster or something rather than handwritten, and that it wasnt necessarily filmed on person. "We have meeting insurance," LaPierre replies. I just wanted to apologize to you guys for any crap this might instigate as far as [inaudible] or something. 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? In November 1971, Indira Gandhi visited the White House to discuss tensions between India and Pakistan.