. What's the industry going to do? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 1979 A mob attacked the. 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. She later insisted that she was not responsible for the remaining 13 minutes of buzz. While some critics of the NRA claim that the organization is beholden to the firearms industry, NRA leaders on the call claimed the opposite that the industry was ready and willing to follow their lead. Any thoughts? Ann Marrie Screaming Hysterically in Audio of 911 Call After Friend's Shooting. I want you to have that Fly CD. It has not been released. For images, explain its historical value or another point around which a discussion can form. 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. A while back, "Bill Ockham" posted a document containing a detailed transcript of the "Basement Tapes" with dialogue not previously released to the public. -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!" The Nixon White House Tapes | National Archives "Why us? I wish that it was the law that presidential meetings had to be tape recorded, Hughes says. Its gonna be like fucking Doom man after the bombs explode. 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 language was Nixon language.". Everyone I love, Im really sorry about all this. Harris: Yea . Guess it was a Prelude. 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. Kevin Moloney/Getty Images They ponder if the police will watch the entire footage of the tapes, then suggest that the authorities would probably slice the footage up, omitting certain parts to convey a specific image of the killers, twisting their words so to speak. NPR reached out to the NRA and provided it with transcripts of the audio we used in this story. Is there anybody we ought to be talking to? "Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues, and More Idiots: Not-So-Great Moments in Modern American Politics." "Everything we do here has a downside," NRA official Kayne Robinson says on the tapes. So it's a double-edged sword.". We need to get a chain reaction going here. It kinda sheds some new light on what his parent's might've thought about his mental state. Images of students running from the school were looped on TV. He told NDTV: There was disappointment at the results of the meeting. 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. Not to say anyone could guess the magnitude of what he was planning, but how many red flags did they miss or simply choose to ignore? 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. Who is more keenly aware than I am that, from a political standpoint, we should have flushed it down the drain three years ago, blamed Johnson and Kennedy? he asked rhetorically. 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. The ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who had voted against impeachment in committee announced that they would now vote for impeachment once the matter reached the House floor. 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. [3] According to his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, Nixon ordered the system removed, but during the first two years of his presidency he came to the conclusion (after trying other means) that audio recordings were the only way to ensure a full and faithful account of conversations and decisions. 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. The final image is a few seconds of the static camera facing a sign on the wall of Harris' bedroom (partially blocked by someone's arm in the camera's line of sight), with a haunting image of the letters "CHS", along with a bomb with a lit fuse, and the word "clue", written in bold black lettering. Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right). Because their story needs a villain. The tape ends with a brief glimpse of a sign on the wall of Erics bedroom, someones arm partially blocking it from sight. I specifically remember reading something about the tapes being found in Erics closet with the word CLUE written on the door/above it. March 30, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. Harris: Morris, Nate, if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room. Called the Basement Tapes because each was filmed in a basement family room in the Harris house. 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. All link / image posts require a submission comment to try and start a discussion. Wow the leader follower thing started quicker thank I thought. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. "Don't anybody kid yourself about this great macho thing of going down there and showing our chest and showing how damn tough we are. Columbine Killers' Basement Tapes Destroyed - Westword [38], The White House released the subpoenaed tapes on August 5. The Columbine Killers' 3 Unreleased "Basement Tapes - Fandom Klebold then takes the camera and films Harris, who also records a goodbye message. In addition to mapping out their national strategy, NRA leaders can also be heard describing the organization's more activist members in surprisingly harsh terms, deriding them as "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" who might go off script after Columbine and embarrass them. What was the point of the Nixon tape? : ColumbineKillers - reddit It wouldnt have been too bad, Nixon guessed. Harris: [in reference to the Kentucky and Arkansas shootings] Do not think were trying to copy anyone. I could have blamed them and been the national hero! Her posture during the demonstration, dubbed the "Rose Mary Stretch", caused many political commentators to question the validity of the explanation. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ive never heard of this, whats the Nixon tape? Wiki Page: http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Basement_tapes_(lost_Columbine_killers_video_diary;_1999) "And I think this will be worse," responds Baker. Because their story needs a villain. Like in this exchange: MAKRIS: Jim, let me ask you a question. While playing the tape on a Uher 5000, she answered a phone call. "The "Nixon" microcassette tape that Eric Harris recorded the night before the massacre. 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. Harris once again mentions Brandon Larson and talks about his head being on his knife (despite the two threats made towards Larson in the videos, he did not end up being one of their victims). He said that when he later heard that 18 minutes were missing, "I practically blew my stack. Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold: The Basement Tapes | Heavy.com In one segment, Eric and Dylan spend more than an hour discussing their hatred for humanity and their fellow students, whom they vowed to kill. What should be said; is that in the police report from what i remember, there were acctually more explosives recovered from Dylans house than Erics. Nixon made this callous statement after the National Prayer Breakfast in February 1972, while talking to Chief of Staff Haldeman and Reverend Billy Graham about the Vietnam War. There, he says: "NOT IN THE COLUMBINE GUIDE: [.] ", 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. The missing 18 1/2 minutes: Presidential destruction of incriminating There, he says: "The "Nixon" microcassette tape that Eric Harris recorded the night before the massacre. Kissinger responded by blaming Nixon, who had conveniently died in 1994. Early on the morning of the shooting, Eric made an audio recording on a tape labeled "Nixon." The name "Nixon" is not a reference to the President, but rather to the last name of a man they interviewed for a school project. Sorry. Did we ever hear more about that? 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. hide caption, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the NRA, is seen here in a photo taken just weeks after the 1999 Columbine shooting. And, and it's gonna, it's gonna be the worst thing you can imagine.". I'm sorry if this is easily obtained information somehow but I haven't found it. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Furthermore, iirc Wayne didn't call until around 1 pm(unless he made another call that isn't included in the 911 log) At that time people already knew Eric was one of the perpetrators and his name had even been mentioned on live tv. We had the idea before the first one ever happened. On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to release the tapes. In the end though, I doubt we'll ever know what was on it especially in light of Jeffco announcing this past January of having destroyed the Basement Tapes and other Columbine related evidence. "[24] Others have suggested that Haig was involved in deliberately erasing the tapes with Nixon's involvement, or that the erasure was conducted by a White House lawyer. 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. [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. This tape begins with footage of Harris and Klebold in Harris' house on March 15, drinking Jack Daniels, and talking about how they hope that the videos that they're making will soon be shown all over the world, once their so-called "masterpiece" had been completed, and when everyone would be looking for answers as to why they committed the massacre. 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? One of those possibilities included that Klebold's hand was situated over the magazine in the leaked photos. It was all just their own paranoia.. He believes that members of all those groups are arrogant and that they put themselves above the law. Some 3,000 hours of secret tapes from President Nixon have been released, but only a small percentage has been published. 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. There were no classified documents at all at Brookings, said Morton Halperin, a former Brookings employee, in a 1997 Washington Post article. 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. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. Under different circumstances it wouldve been a lot different. "We got a call from Congressman Tancredo, who is as good as they get, and he's nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof," says Baker. Authorities have determined that this last piece of footage was taken roughly 30 minutes before the attack.[5]. [5] Nixon's refusal of a congressional subpoena to release the tapes was the basis for an article of impeachment against Nixon, and led to his subsequent resignation on August 9, 1974. The tape then ends.[3]. An in-depth transcript of evidence item #265, courtesy of acolumbinesite.com. Only 200 of the 3,500 hours contain references to Watergate[10] and less than 5% of the recorded material has been transcribed or published. Tips (Interviews) 3. [45][46], The legal disputes would continue for 25 years, past Nixon's death in 1994. The second tape simply contained small amounts of footage of Klebold, Harris and two other boys, presumably in footage recorded for a school project. 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. Not long after the article's publication, furious family members of the deceased threatened to sue Jefferson County, considering the fact that not even they had been given access to the recordings. You remember Hustons plan? And in fact, the report Nixon was so concerned about doesnt seem to have existed. [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. Hes wearing black BDUs (military-style pants) tucked into military-style boots. When hes done Eric moves to sit in another recliner with the bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey, and his sawed-off shotgun named Arlene on his lap. I think his last goodbye message describes his hatred for the school's jock-first culture. see full image 1 / 3 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold documented their madness with journals and videos. This page has been accessed 73,573 times. "The hair on the back of my neck stood up" when this thought occurred to her, Hammer says. 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." This is why I've always been more interested in hearing Eric's 'Nixon' tape than seeing/hearing the basement tapes. (As a 90s kid, it was a common thing to label VHS tapes with a handwritten title or number). [15] Richardson refused and resigned instead, then Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus was asked to fire Cox but also refused and resigned. 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. Publication date 2019-01-22 Topics Columbine, Columbine Massacre, Columbine High Massacre, Columbine High School Massacre, Columbine Shooting, Columbine High Shooting, Columbine High School Shooting, Dylan Klebold Language English. Nixon ordered a break-in at the Brookings Institution at least three times in the summer of 1971, but his staff never ended up doing it. Where exactly was the Basement tapes found? : r/Columbine 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. "You have to go forward," she says. Share to Facebook. .. Dylan takes the camera then and begins filming Eric. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The content of the three tapes is disturbing, shocking even. Cookie Notice Klebold says, Weve been planning this for over eight months., Then tape then cuts to Harris in his bedroom speaking into the camera. the so-called Milk Fund and Watergate trials. [12], On July 16, 1973, Butterfield told the committee in a televised hearing that Nixon had ordered a taping system installed in the White House to automatically record all conversations. From February 1971 to July 1973, a secret taping system recorded conversations in the White House. CORNISH: Tim Naftali is an associate professor of history at New York University. [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 inside, then-NRA President Charlton Heston delivered the defiant message that its leaders had planned out in their private calls a message very similar to the group's position on mass shootings today: The national media is not to be trusted, and any conversation about guns and the NRA after mass shootings is an untoward politicization of the issue. BAKER: I think the industry will do whatever we ask them to do. Further reading into the book brings up a brief elaboration: "Eric got the final two boxes of ammo from Mark Manes, and said he might go shooting tomorrow. 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. 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. The tape then stops once more, before cutting back to a closeup of Harris' face; he is now alone and begins to talk about his family, apologizing for the agony that he knew the coming events would put them through and telling them that it was not their fault. Finally, Harris turns the camera to his previously seen journal which he now dubs the "Writings of God," flicking through the book while talking about his beliefs, before showing various "Doom drawings" that he had done near the back of the book.