David Martin

Death by Force

In the late summer of 1980, a tragedy unfolded near Liberty Park in Salt Lake City that cut short the lives of two young men. On August 20, David Lemar Martin III, an 18-year-old Black male, was shot and killed. He was not alone in his fate; 20-year-old Theodore Tracy 'Ted' Fields also lost his life in the same violent incident. The senseless act was not a random street crime but the work of a man consumed by racial hatred.

The perpetrator was identified as Joseph Paul Franklin, a white s ...Read More

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