UPDATED: Victims in good condition, assailant still at large
| 11:41 AM Oct 29, 2009
Two people were shot in the legs this morning at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood, California, the Associated Press is reporting. “Police say a man with a handgun entered the building at about 6:20 a.m. and shot two people,” says the wire service, which notes that the police are treating the ...
While friends remember slain guard and canceled play moves to GWU
| 1:31 PM Jun 12, 2009
A troop of Girl Scouts from Dallas were among the first people in line this morning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which re-opened today, two days after anti-Semitic Holocaust denier James von Brunn allegedly tried to storm the federal facility. “To say that we can’t do this because of this event is that man ...
How alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn fits into the current state of American anti-Semitism.
| 7:00 AM Jun 12, 2009
There is a lot that we must admit we don’t know about James von Brunn, the white supremacist who (allegedly) shot a guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday. We don’t know his age: I variously read that he was 88, 89, or 90 years old. We don’t know if any of his ...
Shooter was white supremacist (UPDATED)
| 1:45 PM Jun 10, 2009
UPDATED, 5:12 p.m.: A security guard was shot and killed inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. The gunman was 88-year-old James W. von Brunn, a known white supremacist. He walked into the museum with a rifle and opened fire. Guard Stephen Tyrone Johns was mortally wounded. Von Brunn was wounded ...