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Here & Now's Robin Young reflects on the Boston Marathon bombings and everything that followed

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Ten years after the 2013 Boston Marathon, an honor guard stands in remembrance by the memorial at the site of the first bomb on Boylston Street. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Ten years after the 2013 Boston Marathon, an honor guard stands in remembrance by the memorial at the site of the first bomb on Boylston Street. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

As recreational runners continue to cross the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, Here & Now takes a look back at the events that started at 2:49 p.m. in 2013 and have reverberated in this city and around the world ever since.

Host Robin Young reflects on the bombings and survivors, and also the carjacking and car chase, the shootout, and ultimately, the death of one of the bombers and the capture of the second.

This segment aired on April 17, 2023.

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