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Listening to Kathy

The private victims of mass shooters are often forgotten. But now, for the first time in fifty years, Listening to Kathy provides a glimpse into the life of Kathy Leissner, who was murdered by her husband, Charles Whitman, hours before he committed the first televised rampage shooting in United States history. With the support and assistance of Kathy's brothers, Jo Scott-Coe conducted interviews and studied hundreds of pages of letters, photographs, and other primary documents. What emerges is a portrait of domestic trouble that ultimately cut short the promising future of a bright college student and young wife, foreshadowing an unthinkable national tragedy and a family's impossible grief. Finally, Kathy's voice and perspective are part of the story.

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Listening to Kathy

The private victims of mass shooters are often forgotten. But now, for the first time in fifty years, Listening to Kathy provides a glimpse into the life of Kathy Leissner, who was murdered by her husband, Charles Whitman, hours before he committed the first televised rampage shooting in United States history. With the support and assistance of Kathy's brothers, Jo Scott-Coe conducted interviews and studied hundreds of pages of letters, photographs, and other primary documents. What emerges is a portrait of domestic trouble that ultimately cut short the promising future of a bright college student and young wife, foreshadowing an unthinkable national tragedy and a family's impossible grief. Finally, Kathy's voice and perspective are part of the story.

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Listening to Kathy

Listening to Kathy

Listening to Kathy

Listening to Kathy

Overview

The private victims of mass shooters are often forgotten. But now, for the first time in fifty years, Listening to Kathy provides a glimpse into the life of Kathy Leissner, who was murdered by her husband, Charles Whitman, hours before he committed the first televised rampage shooting in United States history. With the support and assistance of Kathy's brothers, Jo Scott-Coe conducted interviews and studied hundreds of pages of letters, photographs, and other primary documents. What emerges is a portrait of domestic trouble that ultimately cut short the promising future of a bright college student and young wife, foreshadowing an unthinkable national tragedy and a family's impossible grief. Finally, Kathy's voice and perspective are part of the story.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780692747971
Publisher: Big Jacaranda Books
Publication date: 07/25/2016
Edition description: Revised, with New Photos and a Preface from the Author ed.
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 4.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Jo Scott-Coe is the author, most recently, of MASS (Writ Large Press). Her first book, Teacher at Point Blank (Aunt Lute), was listed as a Great Read by Ms. Magazine. Her essays have appeared widely, in publications including Salon, Cultural Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, Superstition Review, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Ninth Letter. In 2009 and 2010, her nonfiction received notable listings in Best American Essays. Scott-Coe works as an associate professor of English at Riverside City College. She also teaches community writing workshops for the Inlandia Institute. Listening to Kathy appeared in its first electronic edition at Catapult.co in March 2016.
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