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Shooting at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington

Holocaust Museum Chief of Staff William Parsons (R) speaks during a prayer vigil outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on June 11, 2009. James von Brunn, an 88-year-old anti-Semite, opened fire on security guards inside the museum on June 10. He killed security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns before he was injured and detained. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn)


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Hero Stephen Johns foiled Holocaust Museum massacre
WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- It took until he was 88 years old, but James von Brunn finally got his heart's desire to kill an innocent black man. He still went out a failure when he expressed his terrorist outrage at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on the National Mall in Washington on Wednesday. Heroic guard Stephen T. Johns, 39, a popular, universally respected security professional, stopped him at the cost of his own life and other guards.
Museum shooter charged with guard's death
WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- The man accused of killing a Holocaust Memorial Museum guard had a member of Congress' office address in his possession, U.S. Capitol Police say.
Security guard dies in attack on museum
WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard died of wounds received in an exchange of gunfire with an elderly suspected white supremacist Wednesday, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department turned over more than 50,000 pages of records on the prosecution of Nazi criminals to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Tuesday.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Miles Lerman, the founder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, has died, his daughter said. He was 88.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington plans to include the story of a 1940s U.S. citizen's group that urged help for Jews being killed by Nazis.
WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday compared mass killings in Darfur to the Holocaust, threatening new sanctions against the government of Sudan.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Renowned architect James Ingo Freed, who designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, has died in New York at age 75.
WASHINGTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Thursday was more than just Earth Day. It was the National Commemoration of the Days of the Remembrance, when all of us should have taken at least a moment to l
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