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Virginia Tech releases notes from day of massacre

Sept. 25, 2008
Documents show how administrators reacted to deadly shootings on campus

Newly released notes taken by Virginia Tech officials during the April 16, 2007, campus killings show how school leaders scrambled, sometimes amid confusing circumstances, to handle the emerging reality of a massacre. The 59 pages of handwritten notes provide a public glimpse of the private decision-making process that occurred as the university's top administrators gathered in a war-room environment to stay on top of the escalating tragedy.

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