Francis Anisco oral history interview, 2024 August 16

Oral history interview with Francis Anisco conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on August 16, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Anisco shares his experience on December 6, and how he graduated from UNLV Lee School of Business as an Accounting major on December 19, 2023, less than two weeks after the shooting. He describes preparing for the end of the semester on the first floor of Beam Hall while wearing headphones, when he thought he heard gunshots, and saw people running. He gathered his belongings and ran out toward Hospitality Hall and started texting his friends and turned to run toward Tonopah Hall when he heard a volley of gunshots. When he reached his car, he called his dad and drove home. He talks about his professors, Dr. Patricia Navarro Velez and Dr. Jerry Chang, and the accounting graduate students who were on the fourth floor that day. Anisco shares he has sought therapy and recalls the breathing techniques that helped him process the trauma of his department coming under attack. Digital audio available.