On a quiet September evening in 1934, Elliott Speer, the 35-year-old White male headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Massachusetts, was working in his study. His wife, upstairs tending to their children, heard a noise she initially dismissed as an exploding light bulb. Rushing downstairs, she found her husband bleeding from his arm and chest, two holes shattered the window of his study. Speer collapsed and died twenty minutes later from a shotgun blast fired at close ran
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