by joscottcoe | Mar 22, 2024 | Culture, history
Last week TIME Magazine published my latest article about how Kathy Leissner Whitman’s testimony still matters to us more than fifty years after her death. You can read the article here: “The Link Between Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings.” It was...
by joscottcoe | Aug 1, 2021 | women's history
UT Austin Memorial, 50th Anniversary. 1 August 2016 (photo by Justin Scott-Coe) For all the folks who survived this horrible day on the UT Austin campus, and to those who did not make it through to August 2–including two women, Kathleen and Margaret, who were...
by joscottcoe | Apr 21, 2019 | Culture, history
Yesterday, I had the somber privilege of delivering the keynote speech at a Columbine memorial event organized and hosted by Indivisible 41, March for Our Lives, and Brady United to Prevent Gun Violence. We gathered outside the Riverside Main Library. What...
by joscottcoe | Aug 23, 2018 | buzz, creative, Culture, music, writing
In May, my “A Side” playlist for MASS: A Sniper, a Father, and a Priest was published at Largehearted Boy (many thanks, David Gutowski!). Most people do not realize that by the time he took his position at the UT Austin tower on August 1, 1966, to kill 15...
by joscottcoe | Aug 5, 2016 | creative, Culture, history, women's history, writing
This is not a scoop. This is not an insider tell-you-anything. This is not the beginning or the end or the first or the last word. The heat was unrelenting. Here came the bagpipes. The procession. The tolling of the bell. The stopping of the clock. Dear diary: I was...
Recent Comments