Скачать или смотреть 011. Sam Leam: 1989 Stockton schoolyard shooting survivor

Warning: This episode contains discussions on violence: On January 17, 1989, a man walked onto the campus of Cleveland elementary school in Stockton California and unleashed a rain of terror that would leave five children dead and more than 30 others wounded. The mentally disturbed perpetrator, Patrick Purdy, spent his childhood in and out of the foster care system and had a long criminal record and history of drug use and mental illness. Most of the students at Cleveland elementary were refugees that had sought safety in America after fleeing the Khmer Rouge or escaping the aftermath of the wars in Laos and Vietnam. Sam Leam was one such student and despite being shot three times he survived the attack. Sam will take us back to that tragic day and talk about how it impacted his life and the lives of others. Sam is now focused on his passion for pets and is the proprietor of Sam & Sons Serpents and Bullies.

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Music: Summer 1984 -RKVC

Photo Credits

Patrick Purdy: By Scars never fade / Memories of a massacre, San Francisco Chronicle (October 4, 2006), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Stockton: By LPS.1 - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Police: By Scorpion381 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Historical Footage: National Archives, US Department of Defense