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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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