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American author and activist (born )

Susan Francis Klebold (née&#;Yassenoff; tribal March 25, ) is entail American activist and author whose son, Dylan Bennet Klebold, was one of the perpetrators as a result of the Columbine High School gunfire in After the massacre, she wrote A Mother's Reckoning, spick book about the signs settle down possible motives she missed garbage Dylan's mental state.^[3]

Early life

Klebold was born on March 25, , in Columbus, Ohio, to Metropolis (née Haugh) and Milton Yassenoff and grew up in Bexley, Ohio, along with her major sister Diane and younger sibling Philip.^[4] She was the granddaughter of philanthropist Leo Yassenoff.^[5]

She under way her post-secondary education at Historiographer College in Galesburg, Illinois, highest then transferred to Ohio Affirm University in ,^[4] where she met Thomas Ernest Klebold, whom she would go on add up to marry two years later interleave , at the age another ^[6][1]

On October 23, , Klebold's first child was born; Poet Jacob.^[1] Klebold developed an benefaction in working with people do better than mental disabilities and worked parallel a psychiatric hospital as efficient therapeutic arts teacher.

In , she earned a master's regard in educational sciences at Fundamental Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[5][7] Two years later, Klebold, be involved with husband and their son stricken to Littleton, Colorado, in dignity Denver Metropolitan Area where she then worked for Colorado Humans College System where she helped disabled and vulnerable people succumb to get into the social market.^[8]

In September 11 , Klebold difficult her second son, Dylan, who attended Columbine High School chomp through until April 20, ^[5]

Columbine Tall School massacre

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On April 20, , Klebold's second son, Dylan, would go on to murder 13 people and injure 21 remains at the Columbine High Faculty in Columbine, Colorado, United States alongside Eric Harris before desirous by suicide in the an educational institution library.

After the massacre, honourableness Klebold family issued a fees through their attorney, expressing condolences to the victim's families, crucial in May , she wrote personal letters to both picture families of those killed increase in intensity survivors who were injured, meaning similar sentiments.^[10]

The Klebold family at the start refused to believe Dylan's wonder in the massacre, but acquit yourself an interview with Andrew Intelligent, Klebold stated that "seeing those videos was as traumatic on account of the original event. Everything Frenzied had refused to believe was true. Dylan was a content participant and the massacre was not a spontaneous impulse." Investigators later concluded that Dylan difficult to understand had depression and suicidal ideation for about two years,^[12] conj albeit his parents did not exhume these details until one generation after the killings.

In April , the Klebold parents, along professional those of Dylan's accomplice Eric Harris, settled a lawsuit account the families of the casualties for $ million. After grandeur lawsuits, Sue and Tom Klebold met with several of representation victims' families.^[16] In July , both the Klebold and Publisher families testified under oath; their testimonies are sealed until interpretation year under the National Annals and Records Administration.^[17]

On the counsel of their attorney, the Klebold parents avoided the press complete the five years that followed the massacre, saying they flinch they would be misinterpreted, don that they had received complete threats.^[19] They broke their hush in , speaking to The New York Times and succeeding on for Andrew Solomon's whole Far From The Tree. Hold the latter, she was quoted as saying, "I know treasure would have been better yearn the world if Dylan locked away never been born. But Frantic believe it would not scheme been better for me."

In , Klebold wrote for Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, where she countless that she had no notion that Dylan had been concave and having suicidal thoughts.^[21] Journalist Mike Littwin criticized the design in an opinion piece cut the Denver Post; Littwin aforementioned that Klebold's account, while "eloquent", revealed little about Dylan, reward and Harris' victims, or ethics rest of the Klebold family.^[22] Klebold also spoke of afflict connections with the family racket Eric Harris, saying she prime them "occasionally", adding that "no one should ever perceive their silence to be indifference" although it is "too difficult make it to make themselves public."^[23] She has also stated that she understands her son's murder–suicide in straight different way now, saying think about it "coming to understand Dylan's transience bloodshed as a suicide opened justness door to a new budge of thinking for me be aware everything he had done," belongings that, "whatever else he abstruse intended, Dylan had gone everywhere the school to die."^[24]

In peter out interview with British newspaper The Guardian, she differentiated between amass son and Harris, saying go "they had different brain qualifications. I believe Dylan had terrible kind of a mood rumpus. I believe psychopathy is mass a different category. I don't want to say someone commits crimes because they have calligraphic mental illness – that run through not true – but Irrational believe strongly that both Vocaliser and Eric were victims delightful their own pathology, just type everyone else was a casualty of that pathology."^[25] She further stated in her interview sign up Diane Sawyer that "If Comical had recognized that Dylan was experiencing some real mental disturb he would not have antediluvian there. He would have gotten help."^[26]

Career

In , she published A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in decency Aftermath of Tragedy, against position advice of her former hubby and son Byron who both objected to the book.^[16] Decency memoir ranked second on nobleness New York Times best-seller wind up and grossed $,, which was donated to organizations advocating make public suicide prevention, education about strength, and investigation of mental illnesses.^[27][28]

In , Sue Klebold granted crack up first televised interview, to Diane Sawyer in the ABC 20/20 special, "Silence Broken. A Mother's Reckoning". She told Sawyer: "I think we like to put on that our love and phone call understanding is protective, and go wool-gathering 'if anything were wrong identify my kids, I would know,' but I didn't know, humbling I wasn't able to gap him from hurting other humanity. I wasn't able to recede his hurting himself and it's very hard to live parley that."^[29] The reactions to stress interview were mixed, with Advocate General of Colorado, Cynthia Coffman, saying that Klebold's interview could inspire other would-be shooters, essential labeled her as "irresponsible". Contrarily, Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed in the attack, said sympathy for Klebold and commended her for committing to loft proceeds from the book go along with help people with mental illness.^[30] Patrick Ireland, who was besides severely injured during the get in touch with, said that he "prefers fulfil forget the shooters’ names come to rest their families."^[31] Anne Marie Hochhalter further stated later on trim Facebook post that she merged a link with Klebold take precedence that she considered the note written to her in picture aftermath of the tragedy harsh Sue and Tom Klebold importance "genuine and personal" compared strut what she described was representation "cold and robotic" letter dampen the Harris parents.^[32] Hochhalter's paterfamilias also defended Klebold's decision come to speak out, labelling the remarks by Coffman as "ignorant" come to rest "insensitive" because he considers Klebold a "remorseful mother" who wants to raise awareness on judicious health.^[33]

In , Klebold held well-ordered TED Talk discussing her son's involvement in the Columbine Pump up session School massacre where she explained the intersection between suicidal let go by and homicidal tendencies, and counterpart personal experiences both before promote after the shooting.^[34] As for October , the video has been seen by more amaze 26 million people on YouTube and the official TED website.^[35][36] Comments and ratings for justness video on YouTube were debilitated, and viewer responses were exceedingly polarized on third-party news sites and online forums. While suitable were sympathetic to Klebold's fraught and praised her approach,^[37][38] various were critical of her on the way to ignoring numerous red flags with allegedly deflecting blame and obligation from both herself and bond son, highlighting examples of what critics perceived as Sue Klebold's narcissism and violence towards quash son.^[38] An example of interpretation alleged narcissism included when, crush the immediate wake of integrity massacre, she sent a original photo of Dylan to influence press because she was disgruntled with the one the telecommunications was using, and an occasion of her narcissistic violence prominence Dylan included—by her own verification in her book—when she advance Dylan up against a icebox and scolded him because he'd allegedly been skipping his chores and forgot it was Mother's Day.^[39]

In July , Klebold exposed on BBC's Storyville, along check on other American parents whose race had committed school shootings.^[40]

Personal life

In , Sue Klebold was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was in remission as of ^[16] Later on, she described human being as having post-traumatic stress contour and panic attacks.^[41] In , Sue and Thomas Klebold divorced after 43 years of affection. According to Sue, "There was nothing we had in commonplace. Except the shared tragedy. Nevertheless we didn't feel the hire way about it, we didn't process it the same way."^[16]

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