Boston Marathon Bombing, (17 April 2013) Washington, D.C.
“Boston Marathon Bombing” delivered April 17, 2013, Warren, Elizabeth (1949-)
The copy-text is the video recording of Senator Warren’s speech from the Senate Floor Proceedings on April 17, 2013, in Washington, D.C.:
http://floor.senate.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=560.
Senator Warren begins her speech around 5:02:25. (=A)
A manuscript version of this speech is found in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Congress. See: Warren, Elizabeth. “Boston Marathon Bombing,” Congressional Record, 113th Congress, 1st sess., Volume 159, Number 52, from April 17, 2013, https://www.congress.gov/113/crec/2013/04/17/CREC-2013-04-17.pdf, S2728-S2729. (=B)
The text presented in this unit has been closely transcribed from the video recording (=A).
The paragraph structure is retained from the Congressional Record (=B) and paragraph numbers were added in brackets.
The following capitalizations were retained from the Congressional Record manuscript (B): Nation
[paragraphs 1 and 20], Earth [4], and Governor [21]. We added a small number of commas when Warren
paused in the video to make the transcript easier to follow.
We also made the following edits to the copy-text (A) based on the wording of the transcript posted in the Congressional Record (B). The number corresponds to the speech paragraph where we made the edits:
9: “who grew up in Medford” B: “grew up in Medford” A
9: “and never missed the marathon” B: “never missed the marathon” A
17: “guards” B: “guard” A
This transcript has been proofread for accuracy.
