Name: Author Talk: "I Don’t Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting"
Start: 2026-05-16T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Branch Library

$Author Talk: "I Don\u2019t Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America\u2019s First Modern School Shooting"$

Join author N. Leigh Hunt to learn how Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenager living in a nice suburban neighborhood in 1979, made and executed plans that made her infamous and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. A month after receiving a rifle for Christmas, she opened fire on an elementary school across the street.
Mr. Hunt is a crime historian and broadcaster in the United Kingdom. He lives in Olney, Buckinghamshire, and considers San Diego his hometown.
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