Talk:Columbine Mine Massacre
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The page Columbine Mine Massacre borrows heavily from my more complete personal web page at :
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/columbinestory.html
Wikipedia is hereby granted permission to use this material.
This sounds like left-wing propaganda. It doesn't even attempt to be impartial. Suggest rewrite. --80.219.63.77 00:42, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Oh, that's helpful. Non-specific criticism by an unidentified party.
Richard Myers
This article is not NPOV. It clearly tries to promote the workers' position. It should be cut down to only the facts. 160.39.146.14 02:26, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Indeed, the article comes off almost as a story sometimes. I'll tag it with the Attention...thingy. --Kross 01:36, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
Are there any sources (major newspapers, for example) that describe this event? Virtually all accounts I've seen online are exactly the same as this article, complete with the "chill November morning" opener (it sounds like the writer took classes at the "it was a dark and stormy night" school of narration.) Not to accuse but the whole thing could have been one person's unverified account that got spread around the Internet and ended up here. Paul 22:21, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
See Conlin, Margolis, Joanna Sampson... Phyllis Smith. The strike and massacre have been very well documented.
The language does need to be neutralized a bit. But please do some research, then criticize. Or better yet, research then EDIT. Richard
A friend of mine wrote a play about this incident, and I helped him with the research. Much of the action described here is corroborated by striker testimony recorded in a transcript of an inquest held in the weeks (or months, I've forgotten) after the massacre. The main issues of the inquest had to do with the escalation of violence during the incident, the use of machine guns during the struggle, the presence of the so-called "rangers" and the relationship between the state police, the owners of the mine and Colorado's governor at the time. (This was an era of much Klan involvement in Colorado state government, btw.) For the most part, the "official" story, as rendered by the Denver papers and by the bulk of the inquest transcript, exonerated the police of wrongdoing and downplayed the miner testimony. You could, as they say, look it up, as the transcript is stored in the University of Colorado historical collections; the public is welcome to look at it in the library basement. Hope this helps, J. Gluckstern