{"id":330267,"date":"2017-10-13T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-went-to-school-with-the-vegas-shooter\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:37:14","slug":"i-went-to-school-with-the-vegas-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-went-to-school-with-the-vegas-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"I went to School with the Vegas Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/10\/i-went-to-school-with-the-vegas-shooter\/unnamed-305\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72827\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-3-e1507920820140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><em>Mobile home on tracks, Sun Valley CA, birthplace of the Vegas shooter. From the film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 When we were at Francis Polytechnic High in Sun Valley, Steve Paddock and I were required to take electrical shop class.\u00a0 At Poly and our junior high, we were required to take metal shop so we could work the drill presses at the GM plant.\u00a0 We took drafting.\u00a0 Drafting like in \u201cblueprint drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paddock. Palast.\u00a0 We sat next to each other at those drafting tables with our triangular rulers and #2 pencils so we could get jobs at Lockheed as draftsman drawing blueprints of fighter jets.\u00a0 Or do tool-and-dye cutting to make refrigerator handles at GM where they assembled Frigidaire refrigerators and Chevys.<\/p>\n<p>But we weren\u2019t going to fly the fighter jets.\u00a0 Somewhere at Phillips Andover Academy, a dumbbell with an oil well for a daddy was going to go to Yale and then fly our fighter jets over Texas.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t going to go to Yale.\u00a0 We were going to go to Vietnam.\u00a0 Then, when we came back, if we still had two hands, we went to GM or Lockheed.<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s no coincidence that much of the student population at our school was Hispanic.)<\/p>\n<p>But if you went to \u201cBevvie\u201d \u2013 Beverly Hills High \u2013 or Hollywood High, you didn\u2019t take metal shop.\u00a0 You took Advanced Placement French.\u00a0 You took Advanced Placement Calculus.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have Advanced Placement French.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have French anything.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t Placed, and we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/10\/i-went-to-school-with-the-vegas-shooter\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile home on tracks, Sun Valley CA, birthplace of the Vegas shooter. From the film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Los Angeles\u00a0\u2014 When we were at Francis Polytechnic High in Sun Valley, Steve Paddock and I were required to take electrical shop class.\u00a0 At Poly and our junior high, we were required to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}