How Did That Conversation End?

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"I understood how painful i thought it must be to see that picture in the newspaper," she says. "If we don't show the world what really happened and the terror that was inflicted in that school on that day, how is it possible for people to make good decisions about changing the world? And that i felt that it was important for people to the truth."

John Temple was the editor of Rocky Mountain News in April 1999, when two students committed mass murder at Columbine High School. The photos he published that day would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and enrage Daniel Rohrbough’s mom.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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