The Monica Lewinsky scandal began in the late s, when America was rocked by a political sex scandal involving President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern in her early 20s. In , the two began a sexual relationship that continued sporadically until On May 4, , members of the Ohio National Guard trying to disperse a crowd of student demonstrators at Kent State University opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others.
More than any other single event, the Kent State shootings would become a focal point of She wanted to create a space that would embody the loving and accepting spirit her brother had found in underground gay nightclubs. At a. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris At approximately a. She Said 'Yes' In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims.
Recommended for you. Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Eyewitness Account of Columbine Massacre. Excerpts follow. When it started, I was in the library doing homework for history class. I was at a desk in the middle section when a teacher came running into the library. She ran behind the main desk and told us to get under our desks. While under the desk, I could hear gunshots and explosions in the commons below the library.
Very soon after, Eric and Dylan entered the library. Dylan stopped by the main desk and shot behind it. I don't know if he was shooting at the phone or the teacher. He then joined Eric by the computer desks. They started systematically shooting under desks and laughing about what they had done.
They walked across the section I was in and into the reference section, where they shot more people under the desks. Eric moved back to the computer desks to reload his shotgun while Dylan came up the middle section and walked by the desk I was under. He never saw me. After the incident, I had time to reflect on what happened. I realized that I could have been one of the students who didn't make it out alive. When I realized this, I started to wonder about how I would be remembered; how friends and family would see my life.
Would they say I lived my life to the fullest. At first when this happened, people kept telling me that ''Everything happens for a reason.
How could there ever be a reason for something like this to happen, and what good could ever come from it? Well, as each day goes by now, I am seeing more and more good that is coming from it. Some of the good began even before everything was over, while I still was in the choir office with 60 other students. There were people I hardly knew who were comforting me, hugging me and telling me that everything was going to be O.
There was a group of about six boys who literally saved all of our lives. If it hadn't been for all of them, none of us would have known what to do.
It was kind of funny, because many of these boys are thought of as goofy kids in everyday life. But they had taken the panels out of the ceiling to lift girls through who couldn't breathe, and they kept all of us quiet so that we couldn't be heard outside.
Rowland was convicted of attempted forcible sex abuse and enticing a minor over the internet in , the reports state. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. At a press conference after the murder, University police chief Dale Brophy said police reports had been filed on Oct. The report says campus police should have done more to help her. Rowland was on parole when he killed McCluskey, but university police did not check on his parole status, the report says.
She was eating lunch with her friend, Richard Castaldo, on the lawn outside the school when she was killed. Castaldo, who was also hit and played dead while the killers moved on, was left paralyzed. Darrell Scott said he frequently gets asked what he would advise other parents who have lost children in mass shootings. And second, it would be, celebrate the life of your child.
And if you can, find it in your heart, practice forgiveness, because unforgiveness creates bitterness, anger, a need for revenge and can ruin your life. I would have prosecuted to see they could never do it again. Forgiveness is not for them. He saw his friends Isaiah Shoels and Matthew Kechter get fatally shot.
He found out the next morning his sister also was dead. He said in the years that followed, he resisted being defined by that tragedy. Now, however, Craig Scott said he has found his calling — talking about what happened as part of a Denver-based program called Value-Up.
Tom Mauser also found his voice after his year-old son, Daniel — a straight-A student and a member of the school debate team — was killed.
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