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Jan 18, 2023 · Elizabeth Pha and Jake Sar were only 8 years old when five fellow students were shot and killed at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton on January 17, 1989. Thirty others, including teachers ...
- CBS News Sacramento
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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity. The novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854) by John Rollin Ridge is ostensibly ...
- Why 1850s California Was A Hotbed of Racial Tension
- How The Legend of Joaquín Grew
- John Rollin Ridge, The Native American Novelist Behind The Joaquín Story
Beneath the Joaquín Murrieta story lies the racially charged atmosphere of 1850s California, where violence frequently flared between incoming (mostly white) settlers to the new state and the Mexican and indigenous people who had long lived there. Whether Joaquín Murrieta existed or not, that racial tension most certainly did. It grew out of the Me...
As early as 1850, newspaper reports told of outlaws named "Joaquín" terrorizing California, according to Ireno Paz’s The Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joaquín Murrieta. But there's no way that all the crimes attributed to "Joaquín" were committed by the same person, since sometimes crimes would occur hundreds of miles apart on the sa...
The entirety of the Murrieta narrative—starting with his vigilante story—would never exist if not for the fictionalized biography by John Rollin Ridge. But Ridge wasn’t just a writer—his life is a noteworthy part of history itself, with many details in his biography dovetailing with the Murrieta legend. A Cherokee Indian, Ridge (tribal name Yellow ...
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The Stockton schoolyard shooting (also known as the Cleveland Elementary School shooting and the Cleveland School massacre) was an act of mass murder which occurred at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, on January 17, 1989. The perpetrator, 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, shot and killed five children and wounded thirty-one others ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Vigil held to remember lives lost in Stockton school shooting 35 years ago 03:13. STOCKTON - Wednesday marks 35 years since five students were shot and killed and 32 others wounded at Cleveland ...
- CBS News Sacramento
- 3 min
Apr 27, 2018 · The shooting that led to CA's assault weapon ban: Jan 17, 1989 As the nation debates how to stop school gun massacres, we look back at the mass shooting that ushered in the modern era of gun ...
Sep 22, 2021 · The California Department of Education provides a searchable database of books recommended for high school students, containing 2,551 titles. It is populated with Murieta’s East Coast contemporaries: Moby Dick (1851), The Scarlet Letter (1855), Walden (1854), Leaves of Grass (1855). A search for author last name “Ridge” yields nothing.
