So much of what was reported about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold right after their April 15, 1999 attack on Columbine High School was wrong. But it made the killers anti-heroes.
The front pages of major newspapers on April 21, 1999, the day after the Columbine massacre. By Gillian Brockell Gillian Brockell Staff writer for Retropolis Email Bio Follow April 19 at 9:00 AM The headlines in major newspapers the day after the Columbine massacre were shocking — and they were wrong:“High School Massacre: Columbine bloodbath leaves up to 25 dead”
The Washington Post put it this way: “The shooters who turned Columbine High School into an unspeakable landscape of carnage yesterday were members of a small clique of outcasts who always wore black trench coats and spent their entire adolescence deep inside the morose subculture of Gothic fantasy, their fellow students said.”
"As a result, people assumed that [Harris and Klebold] were part of the Trench Coat Mafia; this assumption is wrong.” “They both had a lot of friends. They both engaged in school activities, out-of-school activities, they worked part-time jobs with some of their buddies at a pizza shop,” Langman said.
Most students are picked on at some point, Langman said, “so in the aftermath of a shooting, if reporters ask the students, ‘Was so-and-so ever picked on,’ the answer just on average is going to be yes. The significance of that though is completely unknown.”
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