Sandy Hook Massacre

Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781524746599

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Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Williamson Pdf

Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023 The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022 Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Slate Best Books 2022 Chicago Tribune Best Books 2022 Los Angeles Times Best Books 2022 Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists. On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in society. One of the nation’s most devastating mass shootings, Sandy Hook was used to create destructive and painful myths. Driven by ideology or profit, or for no sound reason at all, some people insisted it never occurred, or was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms. They tormented the victims’ relatives online, accosted them on the street and at memorial events, accusing them of faking their loved ones’ murders. Some family members have been stalked and forced into hiding. A gun was fired into the home of one parent. Present at the creation of this terrible crusade was Alex Jones’s Infowars, a far-right outlet that aired noxious Sandy Hook theories to millions and raised money for the conspiracy theorists’ quest to “prove” the shooting didn’t happen. Enabled by Facebook, YouTube, and other social media companies’ failure to curb harmful content, the conspiracists’ questions grew into suspicion, suspicion grew into demands for more proof, and unanswered demands turned into rage. This pattern of denial and attack would come to characterize some Americans’ response to almost every major event, from mass shootings to the coronavirus pandemic to the 2020 presidential election, in which President Trump’s false claims of a rigged result prompted the January 6, 2021, assault on a bastion of democracy, the U.S. Capitol. The Sandy Hook families, led by the father of the youngest victim, refused to accept this. Sandy Hook is the story of their battle to preserve their loved ones’ legacies even in the face of threats to their own lives. Through exhaustive reporting, narrative storytelling, and intimate portraits, Sandy Hook is the definitive book on one of the most shocking cultural ruptures of the internet era.

Author : Matthew Lysiak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476753751

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Newtown by Matthew Lysiak Pdf

"In the vein of Dave Cullen's Columbine, the first comprehensive account of the Sandy Hook tragedy--with exclusive new reporting that chronicles the horrific events of December 14, 2012, including new insight into the dark mind of gunman Adam Lanza. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a decade's worth of emails from Lanza's mother to close friends that chronicled his slow slide into mental illness, Newtown pieces together the perfect storm that led to this unspeakable act of violence that shattered so many lives. Newtown explores the two central theories that have permeated the media since the attack: some claim Lanza suffered from severe mental illness, while others insist that, far from being a random act of insanity, this was a meticulously thought out, premeditated attack at least two years in the making by a violent video-gamer so obsessed with "glory kills" and researching mass murderers that he was willing to go to any length to attain the top score. Lanza's dark descent from a young boy with adjustment disorders to a calculating killer is interwoven with the Newtown massacre as it unfolded at the time, told from the points of view of eye witnesses, survivors, parents of victims, first responders, and Adam's relatives. A definitive account of a tragedy that shook a nation, Newtown features exclusive material including initial misinformation reported by the media and commentary on how this catastrophic event became a lightning rod for political agendas, much like Columbine did more than a decade ago"--

Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476793146

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The Reckoning by Andrew Solomon Pdf

First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s journalism so essential” (Salon.com). “Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their child’s horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanza’s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer—and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence” (Time).

Author : Jim Fetzer,Mike Palecek
Publisher : Moon Rock Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692644172

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Nobody Died at Sandy Hook (B&W) (Second Edition-Expanded and Revised) by Jim Fetzer,Mike Palecek Pdf

Author : Doug Giles,Clash Daily Contributors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1618080598

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Sandy Hook Massacre by Doug Giles,Clash Daily Contributors Pdf

"Doug Giles and his team over at ClashDaily.com cut through the crap to expose what have become modern day human slaughter houses: gun free zones. Their candid arguments about allowing teachers to protect themselves and the students in their care through concealed carry should be taken seriously. As a result maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to save some lives someday rather than call the cops to report the body count." - Katie Pavlich. News Editor, Townhall.com and NYT's Best-selling Author, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up The book, Sandy Hook Massacre: When Seconds Count - Police Are Minutes Away, is a compendium of columns that were originally penned by Doug Giles and the writers at ClashDaily.com after the avoidable massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary occurred in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14th, 2012. The book, as you will see, is laid out in chronological order. Doug Giles chose to arrange it this way in order to show their response to the initial shooting and the victims, the deranged killer, the media melee and the creepy unconstitutional political overreach that this tragedy spawned. There are many lessons to be drawn from the awful Newtown, CT school shooting. Unfortunately, most of the media and political Left came up with the wrong ones. Not ClashDaily.com, however. In the wake of this horror, they offer a robust defense of American citizens' "right to keep and bear arms" and a common sense analysis of the actual answers to societal violence. This book is a significant resource for those interested in this vital, Constitutional issue.

Author : Matt Bennett
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725879

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The Promise by Matt Bennett Pdf

Bennett chronicles the attempts of the families with children who were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary to change gun laws and explains why it is so difficult to pass effective legislation to limit gun sales. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.

Author : Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Publisher : Mastery Files
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0986275220

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The Sandy Hook Shooting: The FBI Files: Unsealed Files on Adam Lanza & the Sandy Hook Shooting by Federal Bureau Of Investigation Pdf

Police in Newtown, Connecticut, were told years before Adam Lanza's 2012 killing spree that he planned to carry out a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That is just one of the revelations in this batch of documents the FBI has released. These roughly 1,000 pages of heavily redacted documents show that in 2008, a man told police he'd heard Lanza say he planned to kill students at Sandy Hook, along with his mother. When the man went to the cops with what he'd learned, they told him that "Lanza's mother owned the guns and that there was nothing NPD could do about it," according to an FBI file. It wasn't the only brush law enforcement allegedly had with Lanza before he went on a rampage in Newtown, killing his mother and fatally shooting 20 children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary. In an interview conducted two days after the shooting, Lanza's neighbors told the FBI that Nancy Lanza once said her son had hacked into a government computer when he was a high school freshman. Lanza's mother told the neighbors that agents from the FBI and CIA came to their house afterward, and that she had to convince them her son was simply bright--that he was "challenging himself to see if he could hack into a government system." "The authorities told Nancy that if her son was that smart he could have a job with them one day," one document reads. The run-in occurred years before the Sandy Hook massacre; Lanza was 20 when he committed the killings. This trove of FBI files told the FBI, Lanza was apparently fascinated by mass shootings and killings. The documents show he used screen names referring to infamous school shooters, and "devoted almost all of his Internet activity to researching and discussing" mass murders. According to one FBI document, "Lanza was working on a list, or spreadsheet, meticulously documenting the details of hundreds of spree killings and mass murders." The FBI documents, which were released due to Freedom of Information Act requests, shed more light on the psyche of a man who committed one of the worst mass shootings in American history. The release comes just weeks after another gunman, Stephen Paddock, fatally shot 58 people in Las Vegas--a killer whose motive investigators are still trying to pin down.

Author : Scarlett Lewis
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401945862

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Nurturing Healing Love by Scarlett Lewis Pdf

On December 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure: she lost her son Jesse in an act of unimaginable violence. The day started just like any other, but when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett’s life changed forever. However, this isn’t a story about a massacre. It’s a story about love and survival. It’s about how to face the impossible, how to find courage when you think you have none, and how to choose love instead of anger, fear, or hatred. Following Jesse’s death, Scarlett went on an unexpected journey, inspired by a simple three-word message he had scrawled on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died: Norurting Helin Love (Nurturing Healing Love). It was as if he knew just what his family would need in order to go on after this horrible tragedy. Bolstered by his words, Scarlett took her first step toward a new life. And with each step, it became clearer how true Jesse’s message was. She learned that love was indeed the essential element necessary to move forward and that taking the path of love is a choice. We can live in anger and resentment, or we can choose love and forgiveness. With her decision made, she found some peace and began to believe that choosing love was the key to creating a healthy, safe, and happy world. She began the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation to develop programs to teach children about the power each of us has to change our thoughts and choose a life without fear and hate. Nurturing Healing Love is Scarlett’s story of how choosing love is changing her life—and how it could change our world. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation. To learn more about the foundation or to make a donation, go to www.jesselewischooselove.org.

Author : Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis,Robin Gaby Fisher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780698193598

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Choosing Hope by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis,Robin Gaby Fisher Pdf

"[S]tirring...a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book." --Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller Thrive Kaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling them into a single-occupancy bathroom within her classroom, mere feet from the brutal and indiscriminate massacre taking place outside the door. Since then, despite the unimaginably painful experiences she endured, she has chosen to share her experience with others, in the hope that they too can find light in dark moments. Choosing Hope is a lot of things. A written witness to a tragedy that will never be forgotten. A gripping firsthand testament to the power of good over the power of destruction. An inspirational memoir by a brave young woman whose story is one of courage, heroism, faith, and resilience. And a celebration of all the people who make the choice to pass along their hope and positivity to young ones—parents, mentors, and especially teachers. There is no moving on, but there is always moving forward. And how we move forward is a choice. "[M]oving" -Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Water and She’s Come Undone "[B]rave" -Karen Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life and The History of God “Although now I have witnessed the worst of mankind, instead of feeling bitter or regretful I have chosen to embrace gratitude. I believe in the power of kindness, the influence of educators and mentors, faith and God, and most of all I believe in humanity. Bad things happen to all of us, things that test us and impact us and change us, but it is not those moments that define us. It is how we choose to react to them that does.” —Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

Author : Alissa Parker
Publisher : Ensign Peak
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1629722790

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An Unseen Angel by Alissa Parker Pdf

As the mother of one of the children who died at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Alissa Parker had her world shattered by a mass murderer's rampage. She was left to make sense of her daughter's life and death and to rebuild, seeking a deeply spiritual path to carry on with her life and find new meaning and purpose. As a co-founder of SafeandSoundSchools.org, a touring national advocacy group that helps people take action to make schools safer, Alissa has talked to hundreds of parents around the country about her ordeal and how she was able to endure the unspeakable horror of Sandy Hook. An Unseen Angeltakes readers though Alissa's complete journey, chronicling the moment-by-moment account of the day that began with every parent's worst nightmare: hearing, "There's been a shooting at your child's school." It follows her faith-filled spiritual path to coping, healing, forgiving, and eventually feeling gratitude for the life and love of her daughter Emilie. She describes a bond of love between a mother and daughter that is so profound it transcends the physical body and touches Alissa and the people who loved Emilie who feel her presence every day. And she articulates her deep Christian faith, which guided the answers to Alissa's gut-wrenching, post-tragedy questioning: "Where is Emilie now?" "Can love transcend the physical body?" "How can I know that Emilie is in a better place?" "How do I deal with the 'here and now' when the pain and anger I feel is so overwhelming?" This is the first book about the school-shooting tragedies with a focus on faith and spirituality. As we learn Alissa's story, we are introduced to a special little girl who was wise beyond her years and whose lessons about life and the transcendent power of love continued even after she had passed away."

Author : Dennis Phillips,Sabrina Phillips
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1500883417

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Making a Killing by Dennis Phillips,Sabrina Phillips Pdf

On the morning of December 14, 2012 the shocking news of an active shooter situation at an elementary school in the town of Sandy Hook, Connecticut reached the rest of the nation. The depressing news, the very inkling of which seemed too horrible to even imagine, would not be the only surprise for waiting eyes that morning. All the information following in the harrowing wake of one of the largest school shootings in the nation's history seemed to be, for a time, inconsequential but it wouldn't be long until the sharks would smell the proverbial bait in the water and begin to circle. Not just a month after this tragedy happened there were lobbyists and law makers chomping at the bit to pass sweeping legislation and add new preventative measures without even knowing what might have precipitated such a deranged set of actions as the ones the killer is proposed to have carried out that morning. Without properly understanding the event itself, logically there can be no clear understanding of its causational factors either. With the alleged perpetrator dead there would be no trial and no cross examination of the facts as they were presented. Dennis and Sabrina Phillips combed through story after story trying to find out just what exactly happened that fateful day at Sandy Hook Elementary school and, most importantly, why did it happen?Just who exactly was Adam Lanza and what precipitated the events of that day? Could there ever be a motive for something like this? The Phillips team took on the unanswered questions looming over the case only to venture down an even deeper rabbit hole complete with all the page turning qualities of a spy thriller. With nearly 15 months of research and an unbiased investigation, the book is full of new and shocking discoveries that is sure to captivate skeptics and believers alike. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Sandy Hook school shooting is presented in 'Making a Killing: The Unofficial Story of the Sandy Hook Massacre.'

Author : Deanna Spingola
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781490754383

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Screening Sandy Hook by Deanna Spingola Pdf

Most parents would never consider dispensing deadly addictive street drugs to their children but if a trusted physician writes a prescription for an FDA-approved schedule 2 medication for their two-year old based on some questionable mental health screening, those unwary parents do not question or object. Despite side effect warnings, regularly revealed during TV ads, parents frequently fail to take those warnings seriously, perhaps presuming that the side effects are happenstance or rarely occur. Over the decades, because organized psychiatry, represented by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), convened numerous consensus panels that designed hundreds of non-biologically-based disorders for its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) especially suitable for the pill-for-every-ill pharmaceutical industry that conceivably already had many profitable solutions for the disorders, in the pre-production process. The consequences have been disastrous with no discernable end in sight some people taking prescription drugs or withdrawing from them have perpetrated school, mall and public shootings. That is in addition to thousands of suicides that the public never hears about, unless the victim is a well-known public figure like Robin Williams. Just the military-related suicide rate is 8,000 per year untold numbers of these are the result of the psych drug cocktails doled out by psychiatrists working for the VA. The government is big pharmas largest customer. In addition to the homicides and suicides, irreversible brain damage results from drug remedies to temporary problems that might have been easily resolved through compassionate interaction and talk therapy. Despite the claims that drugs were not a factor in the Sandy Hook mass murders, certain circumstances provide a different picture. Adam Lanza, always a unique individual, changed from being a geeky, weird kid to being a mass murderer, not of people his own age, but of beautiful, vulnerable children feeling secure in their classrooms in a sleepy bedroom community in Connecticut.

Author : Dave Cullen
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446552219

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Columbine by Dave Cullen Pdf

Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ." So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. Expanded with a New Epilogue

Author : Dennis Phillips,Sabrina Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519423950

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Making a Killing by Dennis Phillips,Sabrina Phillips Pdf

On the morning of December 14, 2012 the shocking news of an active shooter situation at an elementary school in the town of Sandy Hook, Connecticut reached the rest of the nation. The depressing news, the very inkling of which seemed too horrible to even imagine, would not be the only surprise for waiting eyes that morning. All the information following in the harrowing wake of one of the largest school shootings in the nation's history seemed to be, for a time, inconsequential but it wouldn't be long until the sharks would smell the proverbial bait in the water and begin to circle. Not just a month after this tragedy happened there were lobbyists and law makers chomping at the bit to pass sweeping legislation and add new preventative measures without even knowing what might have precipitated such a deranged set of actions as the ones the killer is proposed to have carried out that morning. Without properly understanding the event itself, logically there can be no clear understanding of its causational factors either. With the alleged perpetrator dead there would be no trial and no cross examination of the facts as they were presented. Dennis and Sabrina Phillips combed through story after story trying to find out just what exactly happened that fateful day at Sandy Hook Elementary school and, most importantly, why did it happen?Just who exactly was Adam Lanza and what precipitated the events of that day? Could there ever be a motive for something like this? The Phillips team took on the unanswered questions looming over the case only to venture down an even deeper rabbit hole complete with all the page turning qualities of a spy thriller. With nearly 15 months of research and an unbiased investigation, the book is full of new and shocking discoveries that is sure to captivate skeptics and believers alike. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Sandy Hook school shooting is presented in 'Making a Killing: The Unofficial Story of the Sandy Hook Massacre.'

Author : Leetress M. Burris
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781647016753

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Finding the Rhythm in You by Leetress M. Burris Pdf

Encontrar el ritmo en ti, es una historia deliciosa e inspiradora sobre una joven llamada Gina que tiene dificultades tartamudeantes y le resulta difícil hablar y jugar con sus compañeros de clase y participar en clase. Sin embargo, su maestra, la señorita Barnes, se da cuenta de que tiene un gran talento para cantar. A través de este don especial, la señorita Barnes, ayuda a Gina a superar su miedo a hablar y leer delante de los demás dándole la “herramienta” para superar este obstáculo. Esto acumula la autoconfianza y la resiliencia de Gina y comienza a brillar. Esta atractiva historia celebra la singularidad de un niño y cómo encuentra su propio ritmo en el tiempo.