In von Brunn artwork
| 4:30 PM Jun 17, 2009
A painting “of what appears to be Hitler and Jesus” was among the items seized from the Annapolis, Maryland, apartment of James von Brunn, according to court documents filed yesterday. FBI agents also seized 100 rounds of hollow-point bullets, a handwritten will, and a note regarding plant care in the home of the 88-year-old white ...
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 ...
Lipstadt talk stopped by shooting
| 2:48 PM Jun 11, 2009
The historian Deborah Lipstadt, an expert on Holocaust denial, is a fellow this year at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and was in the building when yesterday’s shooting began. She had just begun a seminar for museum donors when she heard shots fired. “I was about to say, ‘The dangers of Holocaust denial are…,’ ” ...
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 ...