Abstract
On 20 April 1999, in one of the deadliest school shootings in national history, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado, killed twelve fellow students and a teacher and injured twenty-three others before committing suicide. Eric Harris, age eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, age seventeen, used homemade bombs, two sawed-off twelve-gauge shotguns, a nine-millimeter semiautomatic rifle, and a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol in a siege that began shortly after 11 A.M.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
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From Dictionary of American History, 3E. © 2003 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions
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Recommended Citation
Yellin, Eric. "Columbine School Massacre." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Gale, 2003. 305. Print.
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