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	Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonesboro is the county seat, the largest city in northeast Arkansas, and the fifth most populous city in the state.
		The Jonesboro massacre occurred on March 24, 1998 in a nearby unincorporated area of Craighead County.
		Jonesboro is the birthplace of bestselling novelist John Grisham, and was home to the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, Hattie Caraway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonesboro,_Arkansas (811 words)

	Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonesboro is the county seat and the largest city in northeast Arkansas.
		The Jonesboro massacre occurred on March 24, 1998.
		Jonesboro is the birthplace of bestselling novelist John Grisham.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Jonesboro%2C_Arkansas (519 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Jonesboro massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Jonesboro prosecutor later admitted that were it not for their ages, he would have sought a death sentence for the pubescent pair.
		A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder, involving at least one actual death, that occurs at a school.
		After the Columbine massacre, for example, a number of American and Canadian high schools had students plot "Columbine-like" attacks; the vast majority of these plots were half-baked and unlikely ever to be taken to execution; of those attempted, almost all were foiled.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jonesboro-massacre (1613 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Yelwa massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities.
		Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants, except figuratively, although the deliberate mass killings of prisoners of war are often considered massacres.
		Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State Massacre.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yelwa-massacre (278 words)

	Jonesboro - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jonesboro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonesboro is situated on Crowley's Ridge in the Mississippi Valley 105 km/65 mi northwest of Memphis, Tennessee.
		A sawmilling town until 1910, Jonesboro later became an agricultural processing centre, handling rice, soybeans, and cotton.
		During the Civil War, the commercial and manufacturing centre of Jonesboro was seized by Union forces on 1 September, 1864.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jonesboro (204 words)

	School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the worst school massacre in United States history, the Bath School disaster, the perpetrator was a member of the school board.
		The most widely publicized school massacre in the United States was the student-perpetrated Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
		The Red Lake High School massacre in 2005 (Red Lake, Minnesota) was a notable exception, copying the element of a gunman in a fl trench coat.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/school_massacre (3195 words)

	Science Fair Projects - School massacre
		In the United States, school violence, especially of the gang-related sort, is more common in poor, inner-city schools, but student-perpetrated school massacres most often occur in affluent suburbs.
		The most widely publicized school massacre in the United States was the student-perpetrated Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.
		March 1998, Jonesboro, Arkansas: 13-year old Mitchell Johnson and his 11-year-old cousin, Andrew Golden, steal three rifles and four handguns from their grandfather's house and shoot 5 dead and injure 10 at Westside middle school "just to scare his [Mitchell's] classmates".
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/School_massacre (2026 words)

	Mass murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time.
		These definitions are evidently outdated and do not take into account the phenomenon of school massacres by students, such as the Columbine High School Massacre, where alienated youths rampage through their schools killing fellow students and teachers alike before turning the guns on themselves.
		Deliberate massacres of civilians during wartime by a state's military forces, such as the Nanjing Massacre during World War II or Project Phoenix during the Vietnam War.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mass_murder (1310 words)

	Seeing Red
		Jonesboro, Arkansas, becomes violent shorthand for the latest calamity to arise from a land that is rich in its history of violence.
		Jonesboro is but an echo of Paducah, Kentucky, which is an echo of Pearl, Mississippi, which are all echoes of America at the end of the 20th Century.
		Pundits and talking heads lament the bloody massacre, and ask a flurry of rhetorical questions that may all be summed up in, "how?"; or, "why?", as if the boys being adjudicated for the human hunting spree are somehow aliens, beings of a distinctly separate order.
	www.seeingred.com /Copy/1.2_mumia_jonesboro.html (634 words)

	Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The massacre provoked debate regarding gun control laws and the availability of firearms in the United States.
		Some analysts argued that part of the killers' problem may have been a result of their constant exposure to violent imagery in such video games, as well as music and movies, theorizing that their obsession with these forms of media may have led them to have difficulty telling the difference between reality and fantasy.
		The massacre was one of the subjects of the 2002 Michael Moore documentary film Bowling for Columbine, about the culture of violence in the U.S. The 2002 independent film Home Room was also based on the incident.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre (9459 words)

	Jonesboro
		It reported that the people of Jonesboro were upset that the media is highlighting its "darkest hour" which serves as a consequence for any future media.
		In other words, whenever Jonesboro is mentioned, the immediate image conjured up will be of a "massacre at a school." The articles discusses above reflect the media’s attitude toward the media and coverage of tragedies.
		The plotline associated with Jonesboro will always be the "massacre at a schoolyard." Plotline is one of three framing techniques outlined by Pan and Kosicki in their article, "Framing Analysis: An Approach to News Discourse." The other two are thematic structures and rhetorical structures.
	www.willamette.edu /~ccollins/framing/aeaker/ourpage.htm (2078 words)

	Jonesboro massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jonesboro school massacre occurred on Tuesday, March 24, 1998.
		Four students and a teacher were killed by two armed middle school boys in northwestern Jonesboro, Arkansas.
		Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, pulled a school fire alarm and fired into the crowd as people filed out of the Westside Middle School, killing four girls and a teacher, and wounding 11 others.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Jonesboro_massacre (110 words)

	TIME: Toward The Root Of The Evil
		Jonesboro's is the fourth student shooting spree on school grounds in the U.S. since February 1997.
		Jonesboro is hunting country, so people there bridle at any suggestion that the simple availability of guns, especially long guns, had anything to do with the killings.
		One of the ironies of the Jonesboro massacre is that people looking for a refuge from stress and violence often try to escape to places very much like Jonesboro.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/1998/int/980406/box2.html (1234 words)

	Learn more about List of massacres in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Massacres are individual acts of mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
		Below is a list of incidents that are commonly referred to as massacres, though other incidents may also qualify yet not be called massacres.
		Peace activists (particularly anti-american ones) sometimes refer to the atomic bombings of World War II as the Hiroshima massacre and Nagasaki massacre.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_massacres.html (388 words)

	Weise -Red Lake massacre - shooting
		The common thread which seems to weave through all these massacres are: psychotropic drugs, Jewish shooters or accomplices, and the fact that the shootings are always followed by calls for strict gun control.
		These massacres have a series of related coincidences, and it seems the ADL and SPLC is always around the corner.
		After the massacre there have always been rumors about a second shooter, which some witnesses were believed to have seen.
	judicial-inc.biz /Red_Lake_Massacre.htm (934 words)

	Jonesboro Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JONESBORO, AR -- In a news conference held on Monday morning, the Arkansas Wildlife Federation announced a new poll that shows hunters and fishermen in...
		Dustin McDaniel of Jonesboro and North Little Rock City Attorney Paul Suskie are the...
		JONESBORO, AR -- Time is winding down, and people 65 and older have until 11:59 pm Monday, to sign up for the...
	jonesboro-arkansas.wikiverse.org (654 words)

	Jonesboro, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonesboro is the county and the largest city in northeast Arkansas.
		Jonesboro is located at 35°49'41" North 90°41'39" (35.828067 -90.694048)
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	www.freeglossary.com /Jonesboro,_Arkansas (776 words)

	CNN - As school reopens, teary Jonesboro students ask: 'Why?' - March 26, 1998
		JONESBORO, Arkansas (CNN) -- Sixth and seventh graders, some in tears and asking "Why?", returned to Westside Middle School on Thursday for the first time since four classmates and one of their teachers were shot to death in an ambush blamed on two other classmates.
		While authorities gathered evidence in the case and listened to a tape of a 911 emergency call before deciding whether to release it, suspects Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, were being held in a juvenile detention facility in Jonesboro.
		In the aftermath of the Jonesboro massacre have come calls to revise the state law that says that children younger than 14 can not be prosecuted as adults and can be held as juvenile delinquents only until they are 18.
	www.cnn.com /US/9803/26/school.shooting.update (1099 words)

	Jacob Sullum -- Reason magazine
		Indeed, the massacre at Westside Middle School got so much attention from the news media largely because such events are virtually unheard of in places like Jonesboro.
		But as the Jonesboro tragedy shows, a plain old hunting rifle is just as effective against schoolchildren as the "assault weapon" that Patrick Purdy used in the 1989 Stockton massacre--a gun now banned under federal law.
		The snipers in Jonesboro, who used handguns as well as hunting rifles, were not stopped by the "assault weapon" ban.
	www.reason.com /sullum/040198.html (720 words)

	jonesboro - Local business directory. jonesboro . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonesboro, Maine Jonesboro is a town located in Washington County, Maine.
		Jonesboro massacre The Jonesboro massacre occurred on Tuesday, March 24, 1998.
		Jonesboro Jonesboro or Jonesborough is the name of a number of cities in the United States of America: Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro, Georgia, originally Jonesborough Jonesboro, Indiana Jonesborough, Tennessee
	www.localbizus.com /georgia/jonesboro/jonesboro-georgia.html (273 words)

	Jonesboro, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonesboro is thehome to Arkansas State University and is aregional center for manufacturing, agriculture, medicine, education, and trade.
		Jonesboro was named after State Senator William A. Jones in recognition of his support in the legislature for the formation ofCraighead County.
		Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.4% are under the age of 18 and 12.3% are 65 orolder.
	www.therfcc.org /jonesboro%2C-arkansas-97120.html (490 words)

	Teach the children well, ANIMAL PEOPLE May 1998
		So careful was most Jonesboro massacre coverage to avoid offending hunters that none reaching ANIMAL PEOPLE even mentioned another recent Arkansas case, that of the Eldridge family in Buttermilk village, Pope County.
		Case study suggests the Jonesboro massacre belonged to a syndrome, and not a syndrome limited to youth.
		The common elements are that the killers have or had troubled relations with often absent or abusive fathers, have low self-esteem and poor social skills, and vent frustration most often on female, juvenile, and animal victims.
	www.animalpeoplenews.org /98/4/hunting.html (1963 words)

	Left Cynically Uses Jonesboro Massacre for Political Goals
		Alter is far less upset about Jonesboro than he is simply determined to augment state power.
		If Jonesboro tells us anything, it tells us that violence, aggression, evil or whatever you call it is simply not susceptible to Mr.
		Alter and those of his persuasion, and to this day we have still to endure the destructive consequences of the ill-advised "quick dramatic actions" their lust for increasing state power demands.
	www.samfrancis.net /columns4/042498.html (736 words)

	Jonesboro,_Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Image:Jonesboro memorial.jpgthumb280pxrightCraighead County Veterans Memorial in downtown Jonesboro.
		Jonesboro is located at 35°49'41" North, 90°41'39" West (35.828067, -90.694048){{GR1}} atop Crowley's Ridge in northeastern Arkansas.
		Roger Bumpass, the voice of Squidward Tentacles on Spongebob Squarepants was born in and grew up in Jonesboro.
	goc.subdomain.de /Jonesboro%2C_Arkansas (751 words)

	Ask yourself Why? - Part Two
		The media were kept a discrete distance from the funerals of the Jonesboro victims, allowing the families to mourn their loss with some privacy.
		I seriously doubt that there would have been a Jonesboro massacre if the boys didn't have easy access to guns.
		I was also responsible enough to recognise that my right to keep a gun in the house was insignificant when compared to the rights of innocent victims of gun abuse.
	www.americanpolitics.com /033198Gelken.html (747 words)

	St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That was the signal for a widespread massacre.
		The massacre was also portrayed in D.W. Griffith's (D.W. Griffith's: more facts about this subject) epic silent film Intolerance (Intolerance: Unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs) (1916).
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/st_bartholomews_day_massacre (1199 words)

	Lessons From the Jonesboro Massacre
		The two boys, ages eleven and thirteen, who planned and executed an armed assault on their Jonesboro school, killing five and wounding eleven, are old enough to know the evil nature and grave consequences of plastering innocent people with bullets.
		This pervasive morality of altruism is an open invitation for an impulsive emotionalist to forcibly sacrifice the lives of others to his feelings and desires.
		As long as people continue to evade the root causes of violence in our culture they will be impotent in diagnosing and preventing incidents such as the Jonesboro massacre.
	www.capitalism.org /glennw/letters_may98/lessons_jonesboro.htm (368 words)

	This Day in History
		In Jonesboro, Arkansas, Mitchell Johnson pleads guilty to the Jonesboro schoolyard massacre on his 14th birthday, and Andrew Golden, age 12, is convicted.
		After the massacre, they fled into the woods toward their van but were captured by police before they could escape.
		The Jonesboro massacre was the worst in a series of deadly school shootings that occurred between October 1997 and 1998.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=general&month=10272960&day=10272976 (673 words)

	CNN - Grieving Jonesboro brothers seek juvenile law change - Mar. 30, 1998
		JONESBORO, Arkansas (CNN) -- Floyd Brooks lost a daughter in last week's massacre at Westside Middle School.
		Jonesboro pastors urge forgiveness - March 29, 1998
		Jonesboro buries another young shooting victim - March 28, 1998
	www.cnn.com /US/9803/30/jonesboro.family.reax/index.html (277 words)

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