Author of NYTimes Bestseller Columbine
Interviews
Columbine Print Interviews
I sat for more than a hundred interviews around publication time of Columbine in 2009. I think you will find these are among the most interesting. (And I added a significant recent one):
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The Hastings Report by Michael Hastings, July 2009 (my favorite)
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The New Yorker by Lila Byock, March 2009
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Time by Alex Altman, April 2009
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Salon by Joan Walsh, April 2009
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Police Magazine by David Griffith, September 2009
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Poynter Institute, by Roy Peter Clark. October 2017
TV
Dave has been a frequent analyst on NBC Nightly News, Nightline, PBS Newshour, Today, Morning Edition, CBS Sunday Morning, The Nineties, CBSN, Anderson Cooper 360, Rachel Maddow, All In With Chris Hayes, CBS This Morning, The Nineties, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, The Takeaway, Deadline: Whitehouse, Lawrence O'Donnell, Katie, Hannity, and documentaries on National Geographic, CNN, Showtime, Spike, New York Times, etc.
Highlights
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Deadline White House: "Those kids, they're my new heroes." Feb 2018
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CNN with Brooke Baldwin: I challenge Hillary to the 22-day Pushup Challenge. Sep 2016
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Anderson Cooper: "We don't do anything." Parkland attack. Feb 2018. (Scroll to minute 10:50.)
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CBSN: “America ‘did nothing’ until Parkland.” Columbine 20th Anniversary. Apr 2019
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CBS: Little kids at Uvalde: “I couldn’t turn it on.” May 2022
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NBC: Spike In U.S. Mass Shootings 22 Years After Columbine. Apr 2022
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Education Week: Columbine 25th anniversary: Myths, Lessons, and Warning Signs. Apr 2024
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Anderson Cooper 360: Dylan Klebold's surprising journal. May 2014
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Showtime: New Columbine documentary (featuring me). Nov 2017
"I urge you to read it. I've read it two or three times. It's just an incredible read.
It changed my whole perspective on this."
— Anderson Cooper
My Columbine page has resources on that tragedy and school shootings. My gay soldiers book page has a great deal on gays in the military, including pictures of me as a (gay) infantry soldier.