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Long TV
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Short Radio
7 minutes

 

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Book Trailer
3 minutes

Dave's YouTube
Channel (videos for readers)

High School Speech
(coming soon)

Dave on Writing
5 minutes

 

TV & Radio: Chronological

ABC: World News with Charles Gibson

Oct. 12, 2009. ABC included commentary from Dave in its piece examining the surprise publication of an essay by Sue Klebold in O Magazine. Sue described her family's response to the tragedy, and what she learned from it in-depth for the first time. Watch.

 

NBC: The Today Show

Oct. 12, 2009. Today included commentary from Dave in its piece examining the surprise publication of an essay by Sue Klebold in O Magazine. Sue described her family's response to the tragedy, and what she learned from it in-depth for the first time. Watch.

 

RadioGoDaddy

Sep. 30, 2009. GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons interviewed Dave about COLUMBINE. Follow the link and scroll down to the Sep. 30 entry.

 

C-SPAN2: Book TV

Apr. 26, 2009. Book TV Executive Producer Peter Slen interviewed Dave on the UCLA campus during the LA Times Book Festival. Watch.

 

MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show

Apr. 20, 2009. Maddow interviewed Dave about Columbine live via satellite, on the tenth anniversary, a few minutes after he left the commemoration ceremony. Watch.

 

BBC-TV: World News America

Apr. 20, 2009. BBC anchor Matt Prei interviewed Dave about the massacre via satellite, on the tenth anniversary. The segment, titled "The Psychology of Columbine Killings," ran on the network's nightly American broadcast. Watch.

 

Listen to the Morning Edition show on COLUMBINE.

Morning Edition  

Apr. 20, 2009. Lynn Neary interviewed Dave for a piece called "The Lessons Of Columbine." The description from NPR's site begins:"Ten years ago Monday, news started trickling out of Colorado about a shooting at a high school called Columbine. It didn't take long for the news media to descend, and reporter Dave Cullen was one of the first journalists on the story." Listen. Read the program summary at NPR.

 

Listen to the show.

Talk of the Nation 

Apr. 20, 2009. Host Neal Conan inteviewed Dave and took listener callers for a segment titled "COLUMBINE Debunks the Myths of the Massacre." NPR's program description includes the following: "In his interview with Neal Conan, Cullen warns of the pitfalls of reaching quick conclusions about the "why" behind tragedies like those at Columbine and Virginia Tech. "Key information doesn't come out for months or even years," he cautions, "so if you start to come to a determination of why within hours, it may be years before you have the information to make that conclusion."" Listen. Read the program summary at NPR.

 

truTV (formerly Court TV)

August 2009. Ashleigh Banfield interviewed Dave live via satellite, about parallels between Columbine and the Alvaro Castillo case, during Castillo's murder trial. Watch: Video coming soon.

 

Newsweek On Air

Mar. 29, 2009. Dave was interviewd for Newsweek On Air about COLUMBINE, and the magazine's essay about the book.

To watch, scroll down the list to the March 29, 2009 episode, and click play. The Columbine portion of the show begins at Minute 35:26 into the show.

 

Watch the video.CNN Documentaries

2006. CNN created an hour-long documentary examining mass murderers, including the Columbine killers. It featured on-camera interviews with Dave. Watch: Video coming soon.

 

Watch the video.National Geographic Channel

2006. National Geographic Channel examined the Columbine tragedy in an hour-long documentary called "The Final Report: Columbine." It featured on-camera interviews with Dave.

Read: Program overview at the National Geographic site. Watch: Dave's on-camera interviews from the show, edited together (five minutes.) COMING SOON. Watch: Two-minute video overview of the show (does not include Dave).

 

The Tavis Smiley Show

Apr. 2009. "Journalist Dave Cullen shares his new book, Columbine, which attempts to shed some light on the events of that day ten years ago." Listen.

 

The Dennis Prager Radio Show.

Apr. 2009. Listen: Audio coming soon.

 

The Paul Harris Show

Apr. 2009. "One of the first reporters on the scene was Dave Cullen, who has now put together the definitive book on the subject, simply entitled "Columbine." Over the last decade, he has done hundreds of interviews, read the killers' journals, ... " Paul Harris Online - http://paulharrisonline.blogspot.com/

 

Air America: The Ron Reagan Show

Apr. 20, 2009. "On the 10 year anniversary of the Columbine School shootings, Ron speaks with Author Dave Cullen who wrote the book on Columbine." Listen.

 

The Jim Bohannon Show

Apr. 2009. "This is the 10th anniversary of an event that shocked America, but has unfortunately hasn't stopped similar events. On this date in 1999 two heavily armed boys entered Columbine High School and killed twelve classmates and a teacher and wounded 23 others before killing themselves. Journalist Dave Cullen has spent the past decade trying to make sense of this senseless act, and he joins us tonight to talk about the results of his work, just published in the book simply titled "Columbine" (from Twelve Books)." Listen.

 

Doug Fabrizio on Radio West

Apr. 2009. "Dave Cullen has spent the last decade studying the event and its lasting impact on the community of Littleton, CO and the nation as a whole. He says he set out to answer two questions in his book Columbine: “What drove these killers, ..." Listen

 

The Jeff Schechtman Show

April 13, 2009. Jeff Schechtman interviews Dave about Columbine. Listen

 

Listen to the show.

Talk of the Nation 

Apr. 20, 2004. On the fifth anniversary of Columbine, Talk of the Nation Neal Conan interviewed Dave and took calls about the killers' motives. Read: Program summary at NPR. Listen:    Real Media  Windows Media

 

 

Watch the video.Helsinki Video. 

2007. Interview with Dave comparing the Columbine killers to other school shooters, after a tragedy in Finland. Recorded in Dave's writing studio, by a reporter for the Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's largest newspaper:

Watch: The video interview.

 

 

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"Half the anguish of Columbine is our mystification. How did those boys get so twisted?
After nine years of great reporting, Dave Cullen has done the impossible:
you will know these killersand it will shake you up.

This is a big-time work that will endure."
 
Richard Ben Cramer
Author of What It Takes