Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Highbeam for Brenda Spencer

January 30, 1979, Tuscaloosa News, page 3, AP Wirephoto, Brenda Spencer Escorted Into San Diego Police Station, diigo,
May 14, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, Odd scenes inspire songs, by Richard Roeper, 700+ words
June 27, 1993, Post-Tribune (IN) Endangered Species: Teen Suicide Attempts Soars, and Guns Up the Success Rate, diigo,
January 30, 1995, The Boston Globe, The public violence of private rage, by Anthony Flint, Globe Staff; 700+ words
March 14, 1996, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) A Mass Killer Is Just like a Bomb Waiting to Go Off,
by Joan McAlpine, 700+ words
November 1, 1998, Good Housekeeping, Look back in sorrow: in 1979, a teenage girl opened fire on a suburban San Diego elementary school; today, as the nation reels from a rash of similar tragedies, the survivors still struggle to understand why it happened, by Tamara Jones, 700+ words
April 22, 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Will the States Ever Learn?, School Shootings Have Left 45 Dead in 10 Tragic Years, by Allan Hall, 700+ words
April 23, 1999, The Washington Post, Echoes of a Different Schoolyard, by Tamara Jones, 700+ words diigo,
May 28, 1999, Chicago Sun-Times, California school shooting led to '80s hit for Geldof, by Jerry Osborne;
March 1, 2000, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) History of Horrors - America's Catalogue of Gun Slaughter at School, by Shaun Milne, 502 words diigo,
June 22, 2000, Law and Contemporary Problems, Kids Who Kill: A Critique of How the American Legal System Deals with Juveniles Who Commit Homicide, by Mirah A. Horowitz, 700+ words
March 10, 2001, AP Online, String of Shootings Haunts Sheriff,
April 17, 2001, The Herald, School killer in bid for freedom, 429 words diigo,
April 17, 2001, The News Letter (Belfast) 'I Don't Like Monday's' woman seeks parole, 269 words diigo,
April 19, 2001, The Mirror (London) Rats Killer To Stay In Prison, 314 words diigo,
April 22, 2001, Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 22 Years on, I Still Don't like Mondays; School Killer Who Sparked No 1 Hit Fails in Freedom Bid, by Lorna Hughes, 635 words
April 27, 2002, The Herald, Gunned down by a youth dressed to kill; Black clothes and a mask are uniform for massacre, by Rob Crilly, 700+ words
September 23, 2002 Hannity & Colmes (FOX News) Interview With Jayne Weintraub, by Sean Hannity,
October 13, 2003, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Why We Don't like Mondays; Washout Weekends of Chores That Lead to the Blues Back at Work, 700+ words
April 1, 2004, The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Sickness in Society That Attacks Animals, 637 words
April 4, 2004, The People (London, England) Children Who Get a Kick out of Torturing Pets in Danger of Becoming Serial Killers,
April 22, 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service,  (The Hartford Courant) Are white men more violent?,
January 1, 2005, Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library, School Violence, 700+ words diigo,
January 29, 2005, The Mirror (London) 26 Years Later .. Victims Still Scarred by the Girl Killer Who Said 'I Just Don't like Mondays', Exclusive: Fears as Brenda Spencer Goes Up For Parole, by David Edwards, 700+ words
January 31, 2005, NPR Special, Analysis: Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting 26 years ago, with Alex Chadwick, diigo,
March 23, 2005, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Growing schools gun toll,  352 words
June 20, 2005, Oakland Tribune, Rabbit killer needs serious counseling, by Alisa Mullins, PETA, 491 words diigo,
September 23, 2005, San Diego County DDA Richard Sachs, DA to Request Parole be Denied for Murderer Brenda Spencer in 1979 San Carlos School Shooting, diigo,
April 17, 2007, The Mirror (London, England) America's Curse: The Uni Massacre, 395 words diigo,
September 24, 2008, Belfast Telegraph, Latest episode in a long line of school tragedies, 524 words diigo,
October 29, 2008, The Washington Post, Off-Target Analysis, by Ian Shapira, Washington Post staff writer
November 16, 2008, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) Lack of Basic Reporting Mars Look at School Shootings,  700+ words
August 13, 2009, UT San Diego, Killer in '79 schoolyard killings denied parole, by Dana Littlefield, diigo,
August 17, 2009, Daily Mail (London) She 'Didn't like Mondays.' Now She'll See Many More of Them Dawn through the Bars of a Cell; Failed Freedom Bid by a Killer the Boomtown Rats Made Famous, by Philip Nolan, diigo,
June 4, 2010, Daily Post (Liverpool) Tragic and unfathomable, by Phil Redmond, 368 words diigo,
January 29, 2012, The Examiner (Washington, D.C.), Sixteen-year-old girl shoots up school, by Scott McCabe; 281 words diigo,
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November 16, 2008, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) Lack of Basic Reporting Mars Look at School Shootings,  700+ words
 ...early chapter, for example, he recounts the case of Brenda Spencer, who at age 16, on Jan. 29, 1979, "broke two...have sex with him. "At the time of this writing, Brenda Spencer remains incarcerated," Fast writes, and her father..

May 28, 1999, Chicago Sun-Times, California school shooting led to '80s hit for Geldof, by Jerry Osborne; 690 words ...schoolyard on Jan. 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer appeared with a rifle she had just received for Christmas...with "I Don't Like Mondays" (Columbia 11117). Brenda Spencer's days are not so lively now. She is at the California..

October 29, 2008, The Washington Post, Off-Target Analysis, by Ian Shapira, Washington Post staff writer who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of last year's Virginia Tech shootings; 700+ words ...early chapter, for example, he recounts the case of Brenda Spencer, who at age 16, on Jan. 29, 1979, "broke two...have sex with him. "At the time of this writing, Brenda Spencer remains incarcerated," Fast writes, and her father...

October 13, 2003, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Why We Don't like Mondays; Washout Weekends of Chores That Lead to the Blues Back at Work, 700+ words
Monday comes from the old Anglo Saxon word Monandaeg, which means moon's day. l Brenda Spencer inspired The Boomtown Rats hit ``I don't like Mondays''. She gave that reply when asked why she had shot dead..

March 23, 2005, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Growing schools gun toll,  352 words
 ...dead by a seven-year-old boy classmate. School shootings were still rare in the US in 1979when 16-year-oldBrenda Spencer killed two and wounded nine in San Diego,California. Her comment that she did it because she did not like Mondays..

March 10, 2001, AP Online, String of Shootings Haunts Sheriff,
; BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer; 700+ words ...killed two people and wounded nine others at a school yard in the city's San Carlos neighborhood. Many remember Brenda Spencer's chilling explanation: ``I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.'' Then in 1984, a gunman opened...

September 23, 2002 Hannity & Colmes (FOX News) Interview With Jayne Weintraub, by Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes; 700+ words
 ...once again to have custody of a child when her excuse is - - she says I was having a bad day. It reminds me of Brenda Spencer... Weintraub: Because we don't know what... Colmes: ...in 1979, she said, I don't like Mondays when...

May 14, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, Odd scenes inspire songs, by Richard Roeper, 700+ words ...interviews. One day while doing such an interview he noticed a story coming over the Teletype: A San Diego teenager named BrendaSpencer had shot four of her classmates. When asked why she did it, Spencer replied, "Because I don't like Mondays..

April 22, 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service,  (The Hartford Courant) Are white men more violent?,
Campbell, Susan; 700+ words ...plans awful attack on tormentors. There were, of course, a handful of exceptions: _In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer turned a rifle onto the California elementary school across the street from her house and killed the principal and..
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April 4, 2004, The People (London, England) Children Who Get a Kick out of Torturing Pets in Danger of Becoming Serial Killers,
  700+ words ...killers and even children who kill started out torturing and mutilating animals for fun. They include teenage killers: BRENDA SPENCER, a 16-year-old school girl who killed two children and wounded eight others at a San Diego elementary school..

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June 22, 2000, Law and Contemporary Problems, Kids Who Kill: A Critique of How the American Legal System Deals with Juveniles Who Commit Homicide, by Mirah A. Horowitz, 700+ words
Twenty years ago, sixteen-year-oldBrenda Spencer shocked the nation when she opened fire at Grover Cleveland Elementary, killing the principal and custodian, and wounding eight...
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April 22, 2001, Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 22 Years on, I Still Don't like Mondays; School Killer Who Sparked No 1 Hit Fails in Freedom Bid, by Lorna Hughes, 635 words
 Byline: LORNA HUGHES 22 years. As a teenage killer she inspired the Boomtown Rats' No.1 hit I Don't Like...
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April 1, 2004, The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Sickness in Society That Attacks Animals, 637 words
...neighbourhood for hanging cats and torturing dogs. David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, shot a neighbour's labrador. Brenda Spencer graduated from setting cats' tails on fire to a 'spray job' on a Californian school which killed two children and...
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April 22, 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Will the States Ever Learn?, School Shootings Have Left 45 Dead in 10 Tragic Years, by Allan Hall, 700+ words
 ...ticking all around us." The casual way that killing is viewed is almost as shocking as the massacres themselves. When Brenda Spencer, 16, sprayed bullets into a San Diego school playground, killing two men and wounding eight children, she declared...
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March 14, 1996, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) A Mass Killer Is Just like a Bomb Waiting to Go Off,
by Joan McAlpine, 700+ words
...what we know as a `spree killer'." Spree killers include crazed gunmen like Hungerford butcher Michael Ryan and Brenda Spencer, the "I Don't Like Mondays" teenager who gunned down schoolkids and their teachers in California in 1979. Ian...
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