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Observation: A Brief Analysis Of The Laramie Project
Laramie Project Reaction Shortly after midnight on October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard was in a local bar in Laramie, Wyoming. There, he met Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. According to McKinney, Matthew asked them for a ride home because it was getting late (90). Subsequently, Matthew was robbed, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die. The Laramie Project tells this story through interviews of the citizens of Laramie, news and medical reports, and flashbacks of specific moments. Those interviews recounted the memories of a diverse sample of people who affected Matthew’s life in one way or another. I appreciated how varied each of the interviews were, chronologically and in terms of the personality of the interviewees, because
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