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	Matthew Shepard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming, who was attacked by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of 6 – October 7, 1998.
		Matthew, son of Dennis Shepard and Judy Peck Shepard, was born in Casper, Wyoming.
		Later, they gave a third different story in a 20/20 interview with Elizabeth Vargas and said that the murder was actually a result of heavy drug use, a robbery and a beating gone awry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Shepard (1790 words)

	The Matthew Shepard Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Matthew Shepard Story is a 2002 television movie about the trial of the killers of Matthew Shepard.
		It starred Stockard Channing as Judy Shepard and Sam Waterston as Dennis Shepard, the parents, and Shane Meier as Matthew Shepard.
		It seeks to illuminate the decisions Judy and Dennis Shepard had to make deciding with regard to whether the death penalty should be sought for their son's killer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Matthew_Shepard_Story (134 words)

	Movies And Specials: The Matthew Shepard Story----AllYourTV.com
		The film dramatizes how Matthew’s parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard (Channing and Waterston), not only had to come to terms with their son’s life and death, but also had to respond to the murder trial of his killers in a way that could put an end to the cycle of hate.
		Judy Shepard’s status as a very private person abruptly ended in October 1998 when she and her husband, Dennis, were awakened in the night by the type of telephone call every parent fears: news that their eldest son, Matthew, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, lay in a coma after being viciously attacked.
		But Judy Shepard’s efforts would be interrupted as she and her husband had to re-live the nightmare of their son’s death while enduring the trial of those accused of his murder.
	www.allyourtv.com /moviesspecials/m/moviesspecialsmatthewshepardstorythe.html (504 words)

	village voice > news > Richard Goldstein by Richard Goldstein
		From the moment The Matthew Shepard Story begins—with the graphic bludgeoning of this frail young man—to its final close-up of a makeshift memorial cross, the film presents images that evoke the crucifixion (and, when the body is discovered by a policewoman, the pietà).
		The Shepard murder is not presented as the perverse work of psychopaths but as the extreme manifestation of a system whose premise is so widely accepted that it isn't even evident to the good folks of Laramie, who say the most atrocious things about gay people while insisting on their tolerance.
		Shepard became the ideal symbol of virulent homophobia—and a corporeal plea for hate-crimes law—but he also became the focus of a concerted effort to reject that meaning, and not just from the right.
	radio.villagevoice.com /news/0211,goldstein,33047,1.html (1346 words)

	Rewriting the Motives Behind Matthew Shepard’s Murder \| Recount: A Magazine of Contemporary Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1998 Matthew Shepard, a 22-year-old gay college student from Laramie, Wyoming, was whipped severely with a.357-Magnum pistol and then tied to a remote fence and left to die.
		Shepard quickly became a reluctant martyr for the queer community and a symbol of the community’s struggle for equality and protection from violence.
		Matthew’s mother, who appeared in the report, told www.365Gay.com that the editing by 20/20 of her interview left out all her comments regarding the show’s potential bias.
	journalism.nyu.edu /_ee/index.php/recount/article/rewriting_the_motives_behind_matthew_shepards_murder (1879 words)

	NicAnderson.com : One in Ten : The Matthew Shepard Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Matthew Shepard died on 12th October 1998, five days after he was horrifically beaten, robbed, and left for dead by two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney.
		He was persuaded to leave with them, although nobody can say for certain why, because friends of Matthew are reported to have said that his motives were unlikely to have been sexual, since he was not interested in casual sexual encounters.
		Matthew was taken to hospital, but never regained consciousness, and was pronounced dead in the early hours of Monday 12th October, 1998, with his family at his bedside.
	www.nicanderson.com /oneinten/tmsstory.shtml (534 words)

	Review: The Matthew Shepard Story
		IN OCTOBER 1998, 21-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard was viciously beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming.
		Shepard’s murder sent shock waves across the country, as millions of people were faced with the deadly outcome of antigay bigotry.
		NBC’s The Matthew Shepard Story concentrates on Matthew’s family as they come to terms with their son’s homosexuality in conservative Wyoming and with the horrific brutality of his murder.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/398/398_09_MatthewShepard.shtml (259 words)

	AEGiS-Chicago Tribune: Matt Shepard bios use his death to skewer hate crime
		Shepard, of course, is the 21-year-old gay man lured from a Laramie bar in 2000 to several miles outside of town, where he was beaten and robbed.
		They interviewed townspeople, Shepard's friends, family members and enemies, and the result is both a documentary and an eyewitness essay on Shepard and his death.
		Shepard's parents, played by Sam Waterston and Stockard Channing, agonize on whether to help one of the killers and plead for mercy at his trial.
	www.aegis.com /news/ct/2002/CT020301.html (1172 words)

	News & Features \| ON TV
		And, indeed, the power of his story rests not only on the fact that he was murdered solely because he was gay, but also on the notion that he was a completely "innocent" victim — young, slight, unworldly, naive.
		The lure and power of the Matthew Shepard story is that he was the perfect victim for the media — as well as for the gay-and-lesbian community.
		Matthew Shepard was human and no one who is human can be completely, perfectly innocent.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/04285820.asp (892 words)

	Entertainment Section of Random Memo, the Manmade Multimedia web delivered Celebrity Information machine
		The Matthew Shepard story, which stars Stockard Channing(West Wing) as Judy Shepard, Sam Waterston(Law and Order) as Dennis Shepard, and newcomer Seth Meier, as Matthew, explores the life of a courageous young man’s battle with being gay in rural Wyoming.
		The movie which is scheduled to air on NBC March 16th, is centered around Shepard’s life as gay teenager and adult who found that being a homosexual was a constant struggle he had to live with day by day, which unfortunately led to his untimely death.
		Shepard who started The Matthew Shepard Foundation shortly after her son’s death in 1998 said she wanted to create something that would honor Matthew in a manner that was appropriate to his dreams, beliefs and aspiration.
	www.manmademultimedia.com /NewFiles/march2002/matthews (581 words)

	HBO, NBC ready to show Shepard films (printable version)
		NBC’s “The Matthew Shepard Story” dramatizes the murder and the moral dilemma faced by Shepard’s parents over seeking the death penalty.
		Shepard, a 21-year-old attending the University of Wyoming, was drawn out of a Laramie bar, fatally beaten and left tied to a fence on the outskirts of town.
		But the violence that battered Shepard (an unseen character in the movie) and made the town a symbol of hate are not Laramie’s problem alone.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=9128 (785 words)

	Protecting Matthew Shepard's Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Matthew's parents spoke out against the death penalty for the murderers of their son.
		Almost four years ago, in preparing to write the script for "The Matthew Shepard Story" for NBC, I traveled with friend and co-writer, Jacob Krueger, to Casper, Wyoming to interview Judy and Dennis Shepard, Matthew's mom and dad.
		For those of you who may not know of Matthew, he was a 21-year-old, openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was tied to a fence in a remote location outside of Laramie and beaten to death with a pistol by two young men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney.
	www.omidyar.net /group/deathpenalty/news/3 (754 words)

	The Laramie Project \| PopMatters Television Review
		Shepard's tragic death remains a painful reminder of how, despite the progress the gay rights movement has made over the years, homophobia is still prevalent in our society.
		McKinney and Henderson claimed Shepard came on to them and their actions were the result of "homosexual panic." But neither of their juries believed the diminutive Shepard could have posed a threat to his assailants; both juries returned guilty verdicts.
		A few knew Shepard personally, while others, like the cyclist who found his body and the officer who arrived on the scene, were connected to him only through his death.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/l/laramie-project.html (999 words)

	"The Legacy of Matthew Shepard" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Matthew was brutally attacked because he was gay.
		Shepard has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, delivering a powerful message to those who oppose hate crimes laws.
		Shepard has also written an open letter to school administrators encouraging officials to make schools safer for gay students by promoting tolerance and reprimanding students who harass gay students.
	www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/shepard.html (354 words)

	Matthew Shepard Online Resources - Home Page
		Shepard was pistol-whipped and beaten brutally and later tied to a fence.
		Shepard 'said he was gay and wanted a piece of me,' according to one letter, both of which were obtained by News4 reporter Rick Sallinger from an attorney in the case.
		Shepard had spent much of his time in Ft. Collins, and eventually died there, and a clear focus of the event was to remember his life and commemorate his death.
	www.wiredstrategies.com /shepardx.html (11305 words)

	LGBT Young People who lost their lives to hatred
		Matthew Shepard was born on December 1st, 1976, a college student who was brutally tortured and murdered in a hate crime.
		Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming in the United States was robbed and attacked by two men near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6th 1998 because of his sexuality.
		Two films were made about the story of Shepard: The Laramie Project (based on the play of the same name) and The Matthew Shepard Story.
	www.queeryouth.org.uk /queerhistory/matt.htm (441 words)

	The Battle of Matthew Shepard: 20/20 says it was a drug-fueled murder, not gay bashing. Why does it matter now? And ...
		The Battle of Matthew Shepard: 20/20 says it was a drug-fueled murder, not gay bashing.
		Shepard was catapulted into the realm of gay martyrdom, becoming the focal point for civil rights advocacy and hate crime prevention laws.
		The Traditional Values Coalition reported, “The murder of Matthew Shepard continues to be used by liberal Senators like Ted Kennedy to push for passage of federal hate crime legislation that will protect homosexual sodomy as equal to a minority group under the law.
	www.readerweekly.us /issue/300/Matthew_Shepard.html (2724 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Television - TV Shows - The Matthew Shepard Story: Shaken by TV role
		Shepard's mother, who established a foundation to honour her son and fight hate crimes in his name, had just arrived in Toronto to spend a few days on the set of the film, which finished shooting the first week of June.
		This was the Vancouver-based actor's second chance to tell the story of Matthew, whom he describes as "just the nicest kid around." He'd auditioned last year for the lead in Anatomy Of A Hate Crime, a film made without any major stars and on the cheap for MTV.
		When the opportunity arose again, it came with Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston cast as Shepard's mother and father, Alliance Atlantis and Goldie Hawn among the producers, a bigger budget, a pre-sale to NBC and the Shepard family's approval.
	jam.canoe.ca /Television/TV_Shows/M/Matthew_Shepard_Story/2001/06/20/733842.html (577 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Shepard, Matthew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1999, the Shepards established the Matthew Shepard Foundation (www.matthewshepard.org).
		They also maintain a personal tribute, Matthew's Place (www.matthewsplace.com), with many links to online resources, such as the Human Rights Campaign; the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; the Matthew Shepard Memorial Quilt; and advice for parents, friends, and families with glbtq children and relatives.
		Shepard has become a fixture of popular culture, evoked by celebrities and performers in order to signal their position on hate crimes and gay bashings.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/shepard_m,2.html (1080 words)

	Video List
		Story of the return of wolves to YNP with numerous interviews.
		Story of hunting and killing of small animals, mostly prairie dogs, for sport in the west.
		Story of the Oregon Trail in WY, nar.
	www.theastrocowboy.com /vlist.htm (5996 words)

	Shepard's story remains untold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Not NBC, which, despite the title of its Saturday TV movie, is really telling the story of Matthew's parents' struggle over whether to seek the death penalty for his killer.
		Both stories deserve to be heard, and both are reasonably well told — far better in the case of Laramie than The Matthew Shepard Story, despite Laramie's occasionally oppressive air of self-satisfaction.
		But in the end, both films shove Shepard into the background — and perhaps that's inevitable, considering that the pain and anger triggered by this young man was horribly out of proportion to anything he did in his too-brief life.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/2002/2002-03-15-matthew-shepard.htm (426 words)

	ABC News: New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder
		The story garnered national attention when the attack was characterized as a hate crime.
		His mother, Judy Shepard, says her son's problems had started three years earlier during a high school trip to Morocco, where he was beaten and raped.
		Some of Shepard's friends say he was still a troubled young man when he enrolled at the University of Wyoming in the fall of 1998.
	abcnews.go.com /2020/story?id=277685&page=1 (826 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		In October 1998, Shepard, a gay man attending the University of Wyoming, was having a beer at a local bar when two small-time criminals, perceiving him to be gay, lured him out of the bar an into their truck to rob him.
		"The Matthew Shepard Story" (hosted by Bill Kurtis and produced locally by the folks at Towers Productions) features interviews with the investigating officers—who admit their lives and, especially, their attitudes toward gays were transformed by the case—the attorneys and, most fascinating, Shepard's mother Judy, who has become an activist for hate crime legislation.
		One of the most fascinating discussions is how the Shepard family, who could have understandably pushed for the death penalty, agreed to plea deals that put both killers behind bars for life, without parole.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/features-2001-05-17-1191.html (452 words)

	Dhahran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reflecting the community's historically American cultural ties, the town celebrated special events for the Fourth of July and Christmas, including a nativity pagent on the grounds of the main baseball park, until 1989, when the Saudi-owned company discontinued the celebrations out of Islamic religious and nationalistic considerations.
		Dhahran in film and TV The West Wing: In one episode, the story plot was picketers outside the Aramco camp of Dhahran.
		In 1998 after the bias-motivated kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, the major American news networks would occasionally mention that the student's parents lived in Dhahran and worked for Aramco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dhahran (3259 words)

	Entertainment
		His resemblance to Shepard almost got Meier cast as the college student in MTV's 2000 TV movie "Anatomy of a Hate Crime." (It came down to the wire, according to Meier, but the role ultimately went to Cy Carter.)
		Viewers also get a look at Shepard's life, including happier times when he was at boarding school and tougher times when he was living on his own in Denver.
		Having won the approval of Judy Shepard certainly meant a lot to Meier, who remained in contact with her after the film was shot.
	www.planetout.com /entertainment/news/splash.html?sernum=148 (536 words)

	Family Groups Fear 'Matthew Shepard Story' Incomplete -- 03/13/2002
		In addition to the movie, NBC will air a "message of hope" from Judy Shepard, the mother of the young man who was beaten up, robbed and left for dead tied to a fence in October 1998.
		Shepard's death became an international symbol of violence against homosexuals and one of the most unifying events for national and local hate crimes advocates.
		As evidence of their pro-homosexual stand, LaBarbera said NBC chose to tell the story of Matthew Shepard and ignored the case of Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old Arkansas boy who was tied, gagged, raped and left to suffocate by two homosexuals who lived next door in 1999.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200203/CUL20020313a.html (784 words)

	Evidence of Jumping the Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Roughly two months before reporting began for a “20/20” piece on the Matthew Shepard killing, the freelance producer who sold the story to the ABC program had decided that methamphetamine motivated the murder and not anti-gay bias.
		In a March 23, 2004 letter, Stephen Jimenez, the freelance producer, told Judy Shepard, Matthew’s mother, that “I am very much aware that law enforcement officers who investigated Matt’s murder concluded that methamphetamine was not a factor in the night’s events.
		conflicted with the 20/20 thesis—was not in the story.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn350/evidenceofjumpingthegun.html (1040 words)

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