On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Comment must be made before we will approve the submission. Or was it a last ditch attempt to BE caught, he seems to have dropped so many hints and no one noticed. Eric laid a micro-cassette on the kitchen counter with some final thoughts."[][p.41]. [20], On November 21, 1973, Sirica appointed a panel of persons nominated jointly by the White House and the Special Prosecution Force. The Columbine Basement Tapes - Everything you need to know about them Columbine Video Archives 25.7K subscribers Subscribe 5.4K 240K views 4 years ago TWITTER. It was supposed to be 500 dead and on fire, not 12 dead. Listening to Nixon | National Archives Does that look bad, or does it look uh MAKRIS: Well, I mean, that can be twisted too. Lead Investigator Kate Battan told me there is nothing else significant on it. Skip to main content. 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. And as you can see, the final tape was inside the camera, so wherever that was. They want us to play the heavy in their drama of packaged grief." Telephone conversations were recorded by tapping the telephone lines from the White House switchboard and relaying the conversations to recorders in a closet in the basement of the residence. hide caption. [22], In a grand-jury interview in 1975, Nixon said that he initially believed that only four minutes of the tape were missing. They go on to talk about how they hate all races: ni**ers, spi*s, Jews, fuc*ing whites. They also mention enemies that abused them and friends who didnt do enough to defend them. The panel determined that the buzz was of no consequence and that the gap was the result of an erasure[27] performed on the Exhibit 60 recorder. Harris: [eventually] Thats it. After 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech in 2007: "This is a time for people to grieve, to mourn, and to heal. The Basement Tapes were filmed by the murderous architects of the Columbine Massacre. Ive never heard of this, whats the Nixon tape? The missing 18 1/2 minutes: Presidential destruction of incriminating https://lostmediawiki.com/index.php?title=The_Basement_Tapes_(partially_found_Columbine_killers_video_diary;_1999)&oldid=197604. For now, your post is awaiting approval and will be reviewed by our moderator team as soon as possible! ", In 2003, a fifteen-minute recording of the killers shooting at the Rampart Range was released, and in 2004, a short film the two had created for school five months prior to the massacre titled Hitmen for Hire, both of which many people suspected to have been two of the five "Basement Tapes". 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. Columbine High School mass murderers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold on the day of the rampage in the school's cafeteria. 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. The shooters' parents, as well as many families of the shooters' victims, all supported the suppression and destruction of all the tapes.[2]. Over the next four decades, the Nixon Library and the National Archives released 3,000 hours of tape that it considers in the public interest, holding back the rest for family privacy or national security concerns. Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia Everywhere else it said it was a civic. The point u mentioned about eric jokingly mocking his parents' cluelessness about what he was doing confirms they knew nothing. One tape, later known as the "Smoking Gun" tape, documented the initial stages of the Watergate coverup. About sixty hours of Richard Nixon's White House tapes will be opened by the National Archives sometime in 1989. Hes wearing a plaid shirt, either dark blue or black with white; the shirts untucked. Here are some things the tapes have revealed so far. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It was all just their own paranoia.. FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. After the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, he became convinced that that leak was part of a conspiracy that was going to leak his own secrets., In response to this conspiracy, Nixon created a counter conspiracy of his own, Hughes continues. "On the other side, if you don't appear to be deferential in honoring the dead, you end up being a tremendous s***head who wouldn't tuck tail and run, you know? 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. Columbine Shooting Police Audio, Channel 1 Tape 1; Part two. "Everything we do here has a downside," NRA official Kayne Robinson says on the tapes. Wow the leader follower thing started quicker thank I thought. 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. They struggled with whether to cancel the convention entirely, proceed with a pared-down event or just go ahead as planned. On this day in 1973, J. Fred Buzhardt, a lawyer defending President Richard Nixon in the Watergate case, revealed that a key White House tape had an 18 1/2-minute gap. Seems like Im probably incorrect? 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. Newspaper Articles: Nixon tape mentioned, CBI Searches Harris's Prelude, "Mark John Doe" pleads guilty to selling Klebold the TEC-9 & Harris Ammo. Eric is filming. But he also knew that this would probably hurt his reelection chances in 1972which is why he delayed withdrawal until 1973. Share via email. From February 1971 to July 1973, a secret taping system recorded conversations in the White House. ", 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. Rose Mary Woods, President Richard M. Nixon's secretary . "And I think this will be worse," responds Baker. The remainder of the tape is a description of the weapons, bombs and the suicide plan., He says this is total KMFDM and that there are 7 and 1/3 days left. He gets an odd look on his face, then says, Fuc*ing bitches. He then lists five names and says that hes going to be one tired motherfuc*er come Monday, then BOOM! The President talks on the telephone, October 27, 1972. This page was last edited on 9 November 2022, at 23:19. I specifically remember reading something about the tapes being found in Erics closet with the word CLUE written on the door/above it. More than 20 were injured. 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. Nixon came to bitterly regret his decision after the Supreme. 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. Yet even though its all out there now, only a small percentage of those tapes have ever been transcribed or published. They suggest that their story should be made into a film, speculating on whether Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino would direct it. 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? Powered by. 11K Witness Testimony. Today in History, November 21, 1973: President Nixon's attorney 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. Guess it was a Prelude. It kinda sheds some new light on what his parent's might've thought about his mental state. Just find one that is a Jew, will you., There are three groups about whom Nixon is particularly paranoid: Jews, intellectuals and Ivy Leaguers, says Ken Hughes, a University of Virginia Miller Center researcher whos written two books on Nixons tapes. The Columbine Basement Tapes - Everything you need to know - YouTube A 7-hour gap in Trump's calls evokes a missing spot on Nixon's tapes. Roche published an article for Times on the tapes on December 20 soon after viewing them, dubbing them the "Basement Tapes". [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. Videos Of Eric and Dylan Before Columbine. Mario Tama/AFP via Getty Images i would love to find out the answer of this. Hey, /u/Alive_Brother_1515! She has generally been straight with me." Is it known where exactly the tapes were Members of Congress, one participant says, have asked the NRA to "secretly provide them with talking points. There, he says: "The "Nixon" microcassette tape that Eric Harris recorded the night before the massacre. Everyone I love, Im really sorry about all this. He even mockingly impersonated his parent's on the Basement Tapes saying something like, "If only we would've asked the right questions." 2.3.2Nixon tape 3Weaponry Toggle Weaponry subsection 3.1Guns 3.2Explosives 3.2.1Pipe bombs 3.2.2Cafeteria bombs 3.2.3Car bombs 3.3Knives 4The massacre Toggle The massacre subsection 4.1Planting the bombs 4.211:19 a.m.: Shooting begins 4.311:22 a.m.: Police response and West Entrance shootouts 4.411:29-11:36 a.m.: Library massacre The next cut-in shows the two men in Klebold's bedroom, fiddling around with their weapons and securing guns to their clothing (the same clothing that they would die in). They're just waiting to know. It's just strange,obviously I could be and probably an wrong,but a part of me always thinks he wanted to be caught as an excuse to back out. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Sorry. 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. I never knew that, Yes the Nixon tape was found on the kitchen table in Erics house but idk about the rest I think i read somewhere that some tapes were found in one of their cars but I honestly don't know, Wouldn't make any sense to keep them in the car if they wanted them to be scene cause they were gonna blow up there cars, Why does that table look like it is set to host a girls birthday party (pink plastic tablecloth and fancy cupcakes). 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. Where exactly was the Basement tapes found? : r/Columbine Years later, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig speculated that the erasures may conceivably have been caused by Nixon himself. In 1973, Haig had speculated aloud that the erasure was caused by an unidentified "sinister force. But a hard-line faction in the NRA is uninterested in those compromises or any position other than the most expansive view of the Second Amendment. Seated at a desk, she reached far back over her left shoulder for a telephone as her foot applied pressure to the pedal controlling the transcription machine. Did we ever hear more about that? Some one who becomes angry easily . This is why I've always been more interested in hearing Eric's 'Nixon' tape than seeing/hearing the basement tapes. Trump's Jan. 6 calls are an echo of Nixon's erased tapes - The 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.