Frank Waterman oral history interview, 2025 March 05

Oral history interview with Frank Waterman conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on March 5, 2025 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Waterman discusses his past career in the United States Navy and Army National Guard, ​before becoming a printing apprentice at a large job-printing warehouse. In 2008, Waterman took a job at the Wynn-Encore print shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2014, he began working at UNLV's Reprographics print shop, and in 2015, he opened Rebel Copy in the Student Union. He recalls on December 6, he was working at the shop with three student workers. When they heard the alarms, they closed (but did not lock) the front doors and he led his students out by the back door, exiting the Student Union by Pida Plaza. They heard shouting from police officers, but they didn't understand the words. They were between Beam Hall (BEH) and the Student Union, intending to head toward Wright Hall. They instead went between BEH and Student Union to the bus stop, where Waterman called his wife. He ended up at Vons, where he let people charge their phones from his car, and he took four people home. He remembers the smell of burnt rubber from so many emergency vehicles slamming on their brakes on Maryland Parkway. He also recalls phone calls from the Department of State office that oversees Las Vegas telling him their first priority was their safety, to mail the passport applications from their print shop when he could. Digital audio available; no transcript available.