Shirley Phelps-Roper
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Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper is an American lawyer and political activist. She was the lead spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an organization that protests against homosexual
Phelps-Roper in 2007
Phelps-Roper protesting in Chicago in 2009
The 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting was a school shooting that took place on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Steven Kazmierczak, 27 years o
Memorial for victims of the shooting
Entrance to Cole Hall, morning after the shootings
Multiple makeshift memorials, including this one near the MLK Commons facing Cole Hall, were established across the NIU campus in the days after the shooting.
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks with University president John Peters via telephone from the White House to offer his condolences.