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| Columbine Shooting Security Camera photo | |
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 Harris (left) and Klebold (right) 8 minutes before commiting suicide | |
| Year | 1999 |
| Subject | Columbine High School Massacre |
The Columbine Shooting Security Camera photo is a security camera still taken during the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, showing Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold with weapons in the school's cafeteria.[1] the photo first appeared on the front page of Time Magazine.[2][3]
The photo has been portrayed as an infamous photograph of the Columbine massacre, alongside the Boy in the Window photo.
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Location: Perpetrators: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold |
Background
[edit]On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and one teacher and injured 24 others. At 11:44 a.m., they were captured on the school security cameras as they re-entered the cafeteria. The recording shows Harris crouching against the rail on the staircase and firing toward the propane bombs left in the cafeteria, in an unsuccessful attempt to detonate them. As Klebold approached the propane bomb and examined it, Harris took a drink from one of the cups left behind. Klebold lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at the propane bomb. About a minute later, the gallon of fuel attached to the bomb ignited, causing a fire that was extinguished by the fire sprinklers a few minutes later. They left the cafeteria at 11:46. Around 50 minutes after the shooting began, Harris and Klebold took their own lives in the library, where the majority of their victims died.[4] At the time, it was the deadliest shooting at a high school in American history.[5] The shooting was the most covered news story of 1999, and third most followed by the American public of the entire decade, surpassing the death of John F. Kennedy Jr and the Kosovo War.[6]
Reception
[edit]The photo was released by the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office on June 7, 2000 along with the full security footage and homevideos made by the gunmen, the photo would first appear on the front cover of Time Magazine's "The Columbine Tapes" newspaper.[7][3]
In popular culture
[edit]The CCTV photo has been featured in lots of Columbine-related media, for example the titlecard of the Super Columbine Massacre RPG! features security camera footage of Harris and Klebold.
The CCTV footage was hommaged in the 2003 movie Zero Day.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jefferson Country Sheriffs Office". Jefferson County. 2000-06-07. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "The Columbine Tapes". Times Magazine. 1999-12-07.
- ^ a b Gibbs, Nancy; Roche, Timothy (December 12, 1999). "The Columbine Tapes" (PDF). Time. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via State of Colorado.
- ^ "Columbine Shooting". HISTORY. June 29, 2023.
- ^ AJ Willingham; Eric Levenson (November 7, 2017). "19 years ago, Columbine shook America to its core. Now, it's not even among the 10 deadliest shootings in modern US history". CNN.
- ^ "Columbine Shooting Biggest News Draw of 1999". Pew Research Center. December 28, 1999.
- ^ "The Columbine Tapes". Times Magazine. 1999-12-07.
- ^ "Welcome to the Essex County Sheriff's Department". 2004-06-14. Archived from the original on 2004-06-14. Retrieved 2019-12-02.