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Gerald Gordon, a 42-year-old resident of Saint Louis, Missouri, was tragically killed on October 8, 1977. Gordon was attending a bar mitzvah at the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue in Richmond Heights when he was shot by Joseph Paul Franklin, a notorious white supremacist and serial killer. Franklin, who had been on a nationwide killing spree targeting Jews and African Americans, selected the synagogue from the yellow pages and fired five shots into the parking lot as guests were leaving th ...Read More
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Gerald Gordon
Male
Saint-louis
MO
1977-10-08
42
Gerald
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11/24/2025
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I recently came across some details about Gerald Gordon's case that really made me reflect on how co... ...Read More
01/17/2025
01/17/2025
I can't stop thinking about how the community of Richmond Heights must have felt in the aftermath of... ...Read More
12/22/2023
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