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Report on Columbine Massacre Goes Public
Aired February 26, 2004 - 06:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It will be a day of painful memories in Colorado today. The state attorney general is to release a report on the investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. The task force has been examining whether local authorities paid enough attention to warning signs.
Survivors and victims' relatives were given a chance to see the evidence in the case.
Cheryl Preheim of CNN affiliate KUSA reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But, you know, our families are forever intertwined.
CHERYL PREHEIM, CNN AFFILIATE KUSA REPORTER (voice-over): They faced so much together. The Columbine victims' families hoped now they'd finally get the answers they've waited for. Inside the Jefferson County fairgrounds building, enough evidence to fill a semi- truck, every piece of physical evidence from the Columbine shooting.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There were, you know, shell casings, spent bullets, pipe bombs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You look around that room and you see the sadness, and you look at the damage that was done by these two killers. It's unbelievable.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just amazing all that stuff that they brought into that school -- the ammo, the bombs, the gasoline. It's amazing how those two kids could get all of that without -- in the school without being noticed.
PREHEIM: They say seeing all of the evidence did not answer the question they've had since the school shooting nearly five years ago: Could it have been prevented? The families feel law enforcement missed clues to the killers' plans.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we have to live with that, and we can either go backwards or we can go forward.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This offers a stepping stone in the right direction. It does not provide access to the documentation that we've been asking for all these years.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're getting closer to the truth. PREHEIM: They still left with some of the same questions they came with, but say they're grateful to be one step closer to some answers.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They really are trying to let us see everything, so that we can find some closure and try and find some happiness in our lives.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
That report from Cheryl Preheim of CNN affiliate KUSA.
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Aired February 26, 2004 - 06:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It will be a day of painful memories in Colorado today. The state attorney general is to release a report on the investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. The task force has been examining whether local authorities paid enough attention to warning signs.
Survivors and victims' relatives were given a chance to see the evidence in the case.
Cheryl Preheim of CNN affiliate KUSA reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But, you know, our families are forever intertwined.
CHERYL PREHEIM, CNN AFFILIATE KUSA REPORTER (voice-over): They faced so much together. The Columbine victims' families hoped now they'd finally get the answers they've waited for. Inside the Jefferson County fairgrounds building, enough evidence to fill a semi- truck, every piece of physical evidence from the Columbine shooting.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There were, you know, shell casings, spent bullets, pipe bombs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You look around that room and you see the sadness, and you look at the damage that was done by these two killers. It's unbelievable.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just amazing all that stuff that they brought into that school -- the ammo, the bombs, the gasoline. It's amazing how those two kids could get all of that without -- in the school without being noticed.
PREHEIM: They say seeing all of the evidence did not answer the question they've had since the school shooting nearly five years ago: Could it have been prevented? The families feel law enforcement missed clues to the killers' plans.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we have to live with that, and we can either go backwards or we can go forward.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This offers a stepping stone in the right direction. It does not provide access to the documentation that we've been asking for all these years.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're getting closer to the truth. PREHEIM: They still left with some of the same questions they came with, but say they're grateful to be one step closer to some answers.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They really are trying to let us see everything, so that we can find some closure and try and find some happiness in our lives.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
That report from Cheryl Preheim of CNN affiliate KUSA.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
