The Sniper Who Wanted a Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin
Between 1977 and 1980, white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin drifted across the United States with a rifle and a stated mission to start a race war. He targeted Black men, Jewish people, and interracial couples in sniper attacks, bombed synagogues, and robbed banks to fund his next stop.
Host Alexander Lawson traces Franklin’s path from his early radicalization to the Madison parking-lot double murder, the St. Louis synagogue shooting that put him on death row, the ambush of Larry Flynt, the wounding of Vernon Jordan, and the final killings in Salt Lake City. Convicted of eight murders and…
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