I Don’t Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting - N. Leigh Hunt
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In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street.
The event is forever glorified by the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer . . .
I Don’t Like Mondays: The True Story of America’s First Modern School Shooting sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day, presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time.
N. Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree. Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences.
Contains mature themes.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
May 8th, 2023
I remember all of it.
The Boomtown Rats. I Don’t Like Mondays.
https://youtu.be/8yteMugRAc0
May 8th, 2023
There’s been two school shootings around the area I live, separated by 20 years. In school, myself, for the first, I imagine it was very similar to how people felt hearing about [the book’s] shooting nearly 20 years before that: a “one-off” tragedy perpetrated by (legitimately in the first case) someone mentally ill but otherwise school is still a safe place, the world is full of crazies but everything is still okay. Columbine happened shortly after and changed the narrative forever. When it happened again (not at the same school but less than a half-hour away), it was another in a long string overshadowed shortly after by Parkland. I work with a couple kids who were there that day (now nearly college graduates), one who watched the gunman walk by on the other side of a glass partition. Balloons suddenly popping triggers the other and it takes him a bit to calm down. These are not unique to the U.S. but there does seem to be something very American about them; a horrible pitiful trend dangerously close to being mainstream. For a lot of these kids, bringing a gun to school is tantamount to committing suicide, sometimes literally–suicide by cop if not by their own hand. To harbor such malice that if they will die, they’ll take as many out with them, it makes one rethink how the whole system of public education functions and what kinds of resources are freely available to kids that might still be saved from committing such atrocity.
There are no magic wands and the hard work needed isn’t politically “responsible”. What’s not hard is asking oneself how deep American endurance for bloodletting runs before political and corporate pressure buckles under the weight of popular opinion…and, of course, when that “popular” opinion will ever materialize to finally tackle the issues.
May 8th, 2023
Thank you
May 9th, 2023
I remember when that happened, and the song that followed, a few years after I graduated high school. The real (and only) issue with this whole school shooting mess is one of the mental health of the people in this country, which I have seen steadily degrading for over 50 years. With all the drugs they are dosing our kids with, all the stresses of school and society squeezing’s people more and more, people are breaking and succumbing too this more than ever. Life in the USA was a very different world 40-50 years ago, people had so much more morals, intellect, curiosity and desire to learn and excel, unlike kids today who just to be ignorant brainwashed radicals. That will drag the USA into a hole that will take many generations to pull out of. Just glad i wont be here to see it, and I pity the youth of today who are able see it for what it is.
May 9th, 2023
Hogweed ” Life in the USA was a very different world 40-50 years ago”
So true. I spent a few months in the USA in the late 70s and had a great time. People were friendly and extremely helpful.
It was actually in Canada that I had a bad experience. One night in a motel car park, a couple of guys mistook me for someone who owed their boss money. They stuck a knife in one of my cars tyres and threatened me. Luckily I was able to talk to them and show my passport.
Ironically, the name of the motel was “The Lucky Strike”.
May 30th, 2023
I was in highschool in 1980 Texas.Every Highschool teen had a shotgun or deer rifle in the cab of their truck. If it would have happened there that girl wouldnt have lived long enough to give reason for shooting little kids. There wouldnt have been any school shooting that wasnt quickly resolved “defending” others.
August 16th, 2023
Life was so different back then. This was a total shock for the area and beyond. So many lies from the media even back in 79. I am also pleased that this book exposes Geldof and the father too.
Needs a real documentary made too with these facts.
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