Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

A New Lens for Examining Male Rage and Mass Murder Ms. Scott-Coe does an excellent job of capturing the life of a young woman through her letters, diaries and personal observations of friends and family members, and makes readers feel as though we personally know Kathy Leissner Whitman. This book emb......more

Kathy Leissner Whitman’s short life as reconstituted by Jo Scott-Coe needs to be shared over and again. The lessons transcend her period in history during which the emotional devastation of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War impacted families across the United States. Kathy’s story ta......more

One way I have coped with my near miss with death on August 1, 1966, has been to read and view everything that I have been able to locate about the shooter and the events of that day. So when I heard about Jo Scott-Coe's newly-published book, “Unheard Witness,” I bought a copy. It offers a thorough......more

This book, and its predecessor, Mass, changed the way I look at mass shootings, domestic violence perpetrators, and those who are caught up in the cycle of domestic violence. Jo Scott-Coe’s exhaustive research and access t0 Kathy Leissner Whitman’s letters other personal documentation and perhaps mo......more

I've read all of Scott-Coe's books, so to say this is her best is high praise, intended as such. "Unheard Witness" is carefully crafted and gorgeously written. As a reader, I wanted to keep turning pages, and at the same time had to pace myself. The story on these pages is not easy to witness. Scott-......more