25 episodes
Long Shadow Long Lead & PRX & The Trace & Campside Media
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The April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School hurtled the United States into an era of mass shootings. Now, a quarter century later, the horrors of that day have become an almost regular facet of American life, and gun violence a record-smashing epidemic. Clad in both camouflage and Kevlar, 21st-century America is a bastion of freedom where workplaces require active shooter protocols, schools run lockdown drills, and the Second Amendment has become a religion unto itself.Guns are a uniquely American problem, but the U.S. wasn’t always like this. LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST explores the story of the people — some names you'll know, some you won't — who changed the way America relates to guns, for better or worse. This season, host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, chronicles how firearms moved from being an ordinary part of the background of rural life to a menacing element of modern American life.Crackling with rich archival tape and riveting eyewitness and expert interviews, this narrative podcast examines threads of history that are vitally relevant to our current political climate. In LONG SHADOW’s first season, Graff, a Pulitzer-finalist and a best-selling author and historian, examined the lingering questions of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Season two chronicled how bloody tragedies at the hands of federal agents led to the rise of American far-right extremism and ultimately the January 6 insurrection. Season three will help listeners understand how simply carrying firearms has become its own act of defiance, and how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven explosive demand for guns across America. How did we get here? Subscribe and listen to LONG SHADOW to find out.LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST is produced by Long Lead and Campside Media in collaboration with The Trace, and is distributed by PRX.
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A Uniquely American Problem
Mass shootings have plagued the U.S. for generations. But in 1999, when shots rang out in a suburban Denver school, it was different. What changed? Everything.
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Shall Not Be Infringed
The Second Amendment may have begun as a Constitutional afterthought, but a late 20th-century ideological shift caused some to view it as a sacred right in the name of self defense.
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The Hardliners
In the 1980s, a pair of intimidating NRA leaders recast the organization in their own imposing images as the group went on an all-out offensive against gun regulations.
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The Right to Bear AR-15s
After a devastating, now largely forgotten, mass-shooting prompted lawmakers to take aim at assault weapons in the 1990s, their ban backfired — and caused gun sales to explode.
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A Good Guy with a Gun
Easy to handle and easy to conceal, handguns went boom in the 2000s, the same moment when many Americans — falsely and tragically — began to equate guns with safety.
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Generation Lockdown
Raised on active shooter and lockdown drills, Gen Z has endured an onslaught of violence — and emerged inspiring a wave of activism, a powerful gun safety movement, and hope.
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Each season of Long Shadow is like a beautifully crafted documentary film. I discovered Long Shadow a few weeks ago, and since then have dedicated every free moment of my time to listening exclusively to this podcast. I just finished all three seasons, and cannot wait for future seasons. I feel like I learned so much about my own country. Things that I have lived my whole life without knowing, despite serving in the Army, and living in the United States for my entire life.
Gorelick wrote a memo concreting that wall between the FBI & CIA
You know Jaimie Gorelick wrote the memo strengthening that wall between the CIA and FBI, which she then refused to testify to her own 911 commission about, right? She left the Clinton administration after writing that wall memo and from 1997-2003 she was vice president of Fannie Mae, which is when she got ultra rich off their 10
Billion dollar accounting scandal. Then she represented BP and used her Obama admin connections to make sure they didn’t have to pay to clean up the Gulf oil spill in 2003.
There’s more of Jamie Gorelick generally acting like her mentor, Alan Dershowitz, until she shows up to represent Jarod and Ivanka while they skirted white house nepotism laws and security clearance requirements, which endanger us all to this day. Gorelick structured the Kushner’s financial agreements, promising divestments that never happened. She ends up as council to the J6 committee, recommending limitations every step of the way, just as she did with the 911 commission and the OKC bombing in 1995.
Powerful
This was so well done. I was moved to tears multiple times.