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Oct 2021

38m 16s

EP96: Tyler Spady's Firsthand Account of...

About this episode

On this episode of Our American Stories, Tyler Spady talks about the mass shooting that took place on November 7, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, California, at the Borderline Bar & Grill, where thirteen people were killed; and Justin Maguire shares the story about meeting his father when he was 23-years-old.

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00:00 - Tyler Spady's Firsthand Account of the Borderline Grill Shooting

18:00 - Meeting My Absent Father

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