There are transcripts from the gunmen's video tapes and basement tapes, and news about Columbine's repair. You'll find a mountain of information here about the victims as well as photos, video and news clips from the event. It's a stark look at the actions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and the consequences that have followed. This website deals with the grim facts of what happened that day. In America, where lives are snatched by unpredictable violence amid the most pedestrian of backdrops, it’s the defamation of normality that stings as much as anything.The oldest Columbine research site on the Internet, A Columbine Site archive is dedicated to those who were injured and those who died in the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. When sites of trauma are memorialized in pictures, a longing for that place-and what it once stood for-becomes real.
Pain can be inherited through family and community-it can also stick around on the surface of things, shifting the meaning of a place from one day to the next. It’s commonly understood that historical trauma does haunt the present. Columbine High School underwent a thorough renovation after its 1999 attack the San Ysidro McDonald’s where 21 people were murdered in 1984 was completely razed. This is why many sites of mass shootings are eventually renovated, paved over, or demolished. But such tidy postmortems are an outlier in the post-traumatic landscape: Most places where horrible acts occur remain intact and ready for scrutiny, irrevocably marred by the events that happened there. Today the grounds are memorialized in negative space-a literal absence of a location, two holes in the ground where the towers once stood. Think of the World Trade Center in New York, where a tragic loss of life is tethered to the far more tangible death of an iconic structure. In our hyperreal mediascape, sites of great tragedy are quickly canonized as images seared into public consciousness through repetition. Violence in banal settings is a special kind of terror. That a spontaneous shooting can occur almost anytime is discomforting enough, but the often innocuous sites of attacks-movie theaters, high schools, cafeterias-can work to heighten the perception of threat. Mass shootings happen here with such alarming regularity that they’ve become a defining fixture of American culture. (George Thompson/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images) Demolition crews bring down the building that was the site of the 1993 Brown’s Chicken slayings on Apin Palatine, Illinois.
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