Joseph Paul Franklin

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Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer and white supremacist who murdered sixteen people between 1978 and 1980. He either admitted to, or was convicted of, shooting 22 people across ten U.S. states, which he drifted between while likely supporting himself with money from bank robberies. Franklin's victims were generally black male–white female interracial couples and Jews. He took interest in white supremacism in his youth, which he later claimed was due to suffering child abuse. He then joined the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP) and the Ku Klux Klan, and became acquainted with white supremacist David Duke. In 1977, Franklin firebombed a synagogue in Tennessee, which caused no injuries. In 1978, he shot Larry Flynt, a white man who headed pornographic magazine Hustler, in response to Hustler recently depicting interracial sex. Flynt survived, while his lower body became permanently paralyzed...

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