CBS Evening News - 1998-03-24
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[0:01] You're watching Coin TV, home of March
[0:04] Madness.
[0:05] Boys are charged with shooting more than
[0:07] a dozen middle school students and
[0:09] teachers. Cold-Blooded massacre in the
[0:11] Arkansas countryside. President Clinton
[0:14] in Africa, confessing America's sins on
[0:17] slavery, and offering American help to
[0:19] fight AIDS and other epidemics. From
[0:22] coast to coast, no one's sure what is
[0:24] and what isn't sexual harassment. With
[0:27] thousands of complaints filed, the
[0:29] Supreme Court is stepping in. And what
[0:32] sank the Titanic? New research says the
[0:34] iceberg wasn't the only villain.
[0:37] [Music]
[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:44] Rather.
[0:47] Good evening. Dan's off tonight. I'm Ed
[0:49] Bradley. Another deadly eruption of
[0:51] school violence in America today. Two
[0:54] boys, heavily armed and dressed in
[0:56] camouflage, allegedly staged an ambush
[0:59] attack. This time it was a middle school
[1:01] in Jonesboro, Arkansas. When the smoke
[1:03] cleared, the dead and wounded were
[1:05] scattered over the schoolyard. CBS's Bob
[1:08] McNamera is on the scene. Bob,
[1:11] in a hail of gunfire from two students
[1:13] lying and ambushed this afternoon, 13
[1:16] students and two teachers were shot and
[1:18] tonight, four young girls are dead. The
[1:21] shooting erupted during the noon hour
[1:23] after students were evacuated from the
[1:24] building because of a fire alarm.
[1:27] Outside the school in the woods behind
[1:29] the building, two boys aged 11 and 13
[1:32] and armed with rifles opened fire on the
[1:34] gathering youngsters. Most of the
[1:36] victims were girls, students here at the
[1:38] Westside Middle School. The two
[1:40] attackers uh were apprehended and
[1:43] t