Heather Ann Thompson

It doesn't matter where you live.

If the rule of law doesn't matter anymore and if truth doesn't matter anymore and if facts don't matter anymore, we are all in danger.

Thank you so much for allowing me to share it with everyone.

But he didn't.

He chose to gut it.

I hope all of these calls to him are heard.

All right, let me do a few questions.

So glad to be here.

Well, in part because the really striking thing about this event at the time and as it's been remembered since is that the story is all about him.

The story is about writing the justification for what he did on that subway so many decades ago and so much so that I am really embarrassed actually to say that when I –

began to think about this case again, I didn't know the names of the teenagers he'd shot.

And I suspected that I was not alone, that there was a complete erasure, actually, of the serious victims of this crime.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, it was something I had to really reckon with.

And so at the end of the day, I initially thought I would try to talk to everybody, even though most of the work I always do is really steeped in the documents of the moment and the words people were saying in the moment.

But when I realized that I wasn't going to actually be able to talk to all of the victims, I wasn't going to be able to talk to one of them because he was –

permanently paralyzed and had suffered brain damage as a result of his injuries.

I wasn't able to talk to another because he had killed himself on the anniversary of this event.

I wasn't able to talk to the third because he had died after years of drug addiction, suffering this event.

And the other one, the