When the columbine high school shooting occurred, it was totally shocking. The only way we could get our photos out of that place were to send a motor cycle in. One of our photo editors rode into the scene and picked up film from a photographer. It was the first film we got back to the news room. We shared all the difficult photos, even the triage photos, ultimately.
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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