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Don't hear about this guy much. Think they don't want to inspire anything

For all the niggers and race traitors he killed, he got prison time. Killing the jew got him the death penalty. Isn't that interesting?

Just imagine what a hundred men of similar character could do

For much of his life, Franklin was a drifter, roaming the East Coast seeking chances to "cleanse the world" of people he considered inferior, especially black people and Jewish people.[7] His primary source of financial support appears to have been bank robberies. Franklin supplemented his income from criminal acts with paid blood bank donations, which eventually led to his subsequent capture by the FBI.[12]

1977

July 29, 1977: Franklin firebombed Beth Shalom Synagogue in Chattanooga, Tennessee, destroying it. Loss of life was prevented because some of the worshippers left early that Friday evening and as a result, there were not enough worshippers for a minyan.[13][14]

August 7, 1977: Franklin shot and killed a young interracial couple, Alphonse Manning Jr. and Toni Schwenn, in a parking lot at East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin.[15]

October 8, 1977: In suburban St. Louis, Missouri, Franklin hid in the bushes near Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue and fired on a group attending services. In this incident, Franklin killed 42-year-old Gerald Gordon.[7] He also wounded Steven Goldman and William Ash.[16]

1978

March 6, 1978: Franklin, according to his later account, used a Ruger .44 caliber semi-automatic rifle[17] to ambush Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer Gene Reeves in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In his confession, Franklin said this was in retaliation for an edition of Hustler displaying interracial sex.[7] Neither Franklin nor anyone else was ever charged in that shooting.

July 29, 1978: Franklin hid near a Pizza Hut in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and shot and killed Bryant Tatum, a Black man, with a 12-gauge shotgun; he also shot Tatum's white girlfriend, Nancy Hilton, who survived. Franklin later confessed and pleaded guilty, being given a life sentence, as well as a sentence for an unrelated armed robbery in 1977.[7]

1979

July 12, 1979: Taco Bell manager Harold McIver, a black man, was fatally shot through a window from 150 yards (140 m) in Doraville, Georgia. Franklin confessed but was not tried or sentenced for this crime. Franklin said that McIver was in close contact with white women, so he murdered him.[7]

October 21, 1979: Franklin killed Jesse E. Taylor, a black man and his white wife Marion Bresette in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1980

May 29, 1980: Franklin (according to him) shot and seriously wounded civil rights activist and Urban League president Vernon Jordan after seeing him with a white woman in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Franklin initially denied any part in the crime and was acquitted, but later confessed.[7]

June 8, 1980: Franklin killed cousins Darrell Lane (14) and Dante Evans Brown (13) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waiting on an overpass to shoot a racially mixed couple, he shot the boys instead, a crime to which he later confessed. He was convicted in 1998 and received two life sentences for these murders.[18][19]

June 15, 1980: Franklin shot and killed Arthur Smothers (22) and Kathleen Mikula (16) with a high-powered rifle as the couple walked across the Washington Street Bridge in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Smothers was Black; Mikula was white. On the day of the murder, Franklin took a concealed position on a wooded hillside overlooking downtown Johnstown and waited for potential targets to enter his line of sight. He was never arrested for these murders, but he confessed to them during a jailhouse interview after he was apprehended.[20]

June 25, 1980: Franklin used a .44 Ruger pistol to kill two hitchhikers, Nancy Santomero (19) and Vicki Durian (26), in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. He confessed to the crime in 1997 to an Ohio assistant prosecutor in the course of investigation in another case. He said he picked up the white women and decided to kill them after one said she had a black boyfriend. Jacob Beard of Florida was convicted and imprisoned in 1993 on these charges. He was freed in 1999 and a new trial was ordered based on Franklin's confession.[18]

August 20, 1980: Franklin killed two Black men, Ted Fields and David Martin, near Liberty Park located in Salt Lake City, Utah.[7] He was tried on federal civil rights charges as well as state first-degree murder charges.[21]

"On July 25, 1977, he detonated a dynamite bomb outside the Rockville, Maryland, home of Jewish lobbyist, attorney, and at the time executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Morris J. Amitay. While the latter and his family managed to escape, their house dog was killed in the explosion."

"During his teens, he had come into contact with far right and neo-Nazism, eventually joining the National Socialist White People's Party (currently known as the American Nazi Party) and, after his mother's death in 1972, the segregationist movement. Moving to Atlanta, he also enlisted in the National States' Rights Party, along with the local Ku Klux Klan. Within those groups, Franklin came to dislike the fact that all most of his fellow members seemed to want to do was talking, while he was ready to take action. He began insulting interracial couples in public, in one instance spraying them with self-defense spray. In 1976, he wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, threatening to kill him for his pro-civil rights views. In the same year, he changed his name to "Joseph Paul Franklin", honoring both Nazi minister of propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels and Benjamin Franklin. Franklin would later state that he decided to start a race war after reading a copy of Mein Kampf, while also claiming to have been inspired by Charles Manson's "Helter-Skelter"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Franklin

https://youtu.be/gIocxlBDjpg

“It was extremely difficult for the FBI,” Douglas said. “Extremely difficult case for secret service because he made threats against Jimmy Carter, you know, president at that time, and I believed that this guy Franklin would be going into that area where Jimmy Carter was down south at the same time.”

Franklin had penned a letter to President Carter, enraged at his advocacy for civil rights, according to the book. If given the opportunity, Douglas says he believes Franklin would have attempted to assassinate him using his skill as a sniper.

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/how-john-douglas-helped-catch-killer-joseph-paul-franklin

Dude tried to start a race war 40 years too soon.