Meir David HaKohen Kahane, a 58-year-old Jewish male, was a controversial figure, known for his ultranationalist politics and the founding of the Jewish Defense League. On the evening of November 5, 1990, he was in the second-floor lecture hall of the New York Marriott East Side hotel in Manhattan, having just delivered a speech to a group of mostly Orthodox Jews. As he answered questions from a crowd of well-wishers who had gathered around him, a man disguised as an Orthodox Jew approached him.
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