NBC News receives 'disturbing' communication from Virginia Tech shooter
04/18/2007 @ 4:01 pm
Filed by Josh Catone
NBC News said today that they had received a package from the Virginia Tech gunman, Cho Seung-Hui. The package included video, photos, and writings which NBC News described as "long and rambling."
MSNBC further characterized the contents of Cho's missive and video as "disturbing."
'NBC Nightly News' anchor, Brian Williams, referred to the package as a "multimedia manifesto" on his blog. Analysts on other cable news networks drew comparisons between the Cho package and Theodore Kaczynski's "Unabomber Manifesto," which was published in the New York Times and Washington Post in 1995.
NBC News immediately handed the package and its contents over to the FBI and would only speak in vague terms regarding its exact contents pending a federal investigation.
Steve Capus, NBC News President, said the package was a "rambling, manifesto-like statement embedded with a series of photographs" that was "hard-to-follow ... disturbing, very disturbing — very angry, profanity-laced."
The package does not include video of images of Cho carrying out the killings, according to Capus, but includes "vague references" to the events of Monday morning.
"Among the materials are 23 QuickTime video files showing Cho talking directly to the camera about his hatred of the wealthy," said Capus, reports MSNBC.
The network indicated that the materials appeared to have been put in the mail between the first and second shootings on Monday morning.
NBC plans to air portions of the video on 'NBC Nightly News' Wednesday night.
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