Shooting at Holocaust Museum in DC

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 1:38pm

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/Holocaust_Museum_Shooting_in_

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/museum.shooting/

Updated On: 6/10/09 at 01:38 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 1:57pm

Terrible news!

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 1:58pm

Yeah my friend just drove by a few minutes ago, right before the news broke and said that there were 4 fire trucks and a bunch of cop cars over there! Scary!!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:02pm

I read on a Twitter update that there was a rumor of the shooter being an 89 year old...?

[harris007]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:18pm

Wow kinda glad I didn't go into dc today

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:22pm

Drudge Report says it was an 89 year old "White Supremacist."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:23pm

I visited the Holocaust Museum in '94. About a half hour after I left the museum was evacuated because of a bomb threat. Apparently, this is a fairly regular occurence they prefer not be covered in the press so as to not encourage copycats.

All of this just reaffirms the need for such a museum in the first place.

[Q]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:27pm

I just checked Drudge, and the headline/link to the 89yo claim doesn't work.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:31pm

Yeah, the politics of fear are re-emerging, and the xenophobes are terrified. So what else is new? I.E. white supremecists, homophobes, anti semitics, anti latino, whatever. Get used to it, lunatic fringe...this has NOTHING to do w/Obama. Yeah, and I'm Jewish and do NOT believe that EVERY nut case or Muslim is out to get me. Diversity in America will always be here, no matter how terrified you nut cases get. Now the latest news is that the shooter is an 89 year old aaangry mental case.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:31pm

It's pathetic that Gawker is a source, but they're saying an 89 year old man and the two people shot were a security guard and the old guy himself.

[Q]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:34pm

Apparently, MSNBC's Pete Williams is also reporting the 89y0 supremicist knfo.

edit - wrong Williams.
Updated On: 6/10/09 at 02:34 PM

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 2:56pm

Another crazy white supremcist

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=122772

http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/blog/?p=463

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 3:54pm

Security Guard has died from gunshot.

Terrible. So sad.

[fflagg]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 4:12pm

I wonder if this lunatic will be given a pass by Fox like the guy who killed the abortion doctor?

[Plum]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 4:13pm

Remember kids, if it's a white American guy it's not terrorism!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 4:17pm

Just heard that the security guard died.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 4:24pm

Wow he is a real dyed in the wool nutjob.

we are engaged in a deadly war Updated On: 6/10/09 at 04:24 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 5:08pm

Remember when the far right went nuts when Homeland Security warned us about domestic terrorists? Since then, an abortion provider has been assassinated, and a white supremicist has shot up the Holocaust Museum.

[nearthestage]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 5:30pm

Such an ignorant action.

My prayers are with the security guard's family.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 5:32pm

"About a half hour after I left the museum was evacuated because of a bomb threat. Apparently, this is a fairly regular occurence they prefer not be covered in the press so as to not encourage copycats."

Interesting you bring that up. I actually went sometime before 2000 and was next in line to get tickets to go to the museum that day. Next thing I know they were bringing in German Shepherds and blocked us off for a bit before they actually let us inside. I think it was a bomb threat.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 5:35pm

The Drudge linked worked for me. Here's the article. It's from the website of the Times of London:

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Times Online
June 10, 2009

White supremacist James W Von Brunn kills guard at Holocaust museum

Tim Reid in Washington

An 88-year-old white supremacist and Holocaust denier opened fire in Washington?s Holocaust Museum today, killing a security guard before being shot in the head.

James W von Brunn, who was convicted in 1983 for running towards the boardroom of Washington?s Federal Reserve building with a shotgun, entered the Holocaust Museum just before 1pm wearing a Confederate hat, and opened fire ?indiscriminately? with a long rifle. Witnesses said that he had parked his red car directly outside, displaying a disabled badge.



A guard, named as Stephen Tyrone Johns, was hit and later died of his injuries. Two other security officers at the heavily guarded museum, less than a mile from the White House, hit von Brunn in the head with return fire. He was taken to George Washington University Hospital in a critical condition. Officials said he may not survive.

The shooting, at one of Washington?s most popular tourist destinations ? filled today with schoolchildren - came after a visit last week by President Obama to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Dresden, in Germany. It sparked alarm in the heart of the US capital and caused most of the National Mall to be closed down.

Von Brunn, who claims on his own website to have been a decorated PT-boat captain and lieutenant in the US Navy during World War II, has written a book entitled ?Kill the Best Gentiles!? According to its preface, its purpose it ?to present WHITE YOUTH? with factual information to explain that an ?age old CONSPIRACY does exist to destroy Western Civilisation.?

Von Brunn also has a Wikipedia user profile in which he champions the virtues of Western culture and the practice of eugenics. In another article he claims that Holocaust history is destroying Western civilization.

He is clearly a Holocaust denier ? a belief decried by Mr Obama during his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last week. Von Brunn bemoans that ?Jews control all important sources of information?, and claims that there is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white gene pool. He also wrote: ?America is a Third-World racial garbage-dump ? stupid, ignorant, dead broke, and terminal. Whites LOVE their Enemies. Prepare to die, Whitey.? One of heroes he cites is World War II Real Admiral John Crommelin, a notorious anti-Semite who later ran for governor of Alabama.

In 1981, von Brunn entered the Federal Reserve in Washington with a shotgun to make a citizens arrest, he later said, to protest about high interest rates. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail.

On his website, he claims he was convicted by a ?Negro jury, Jew /Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal.?

Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama?s White House spokesman, said the president was ?saddened? by the attack, had ?asked about the condition of the guard, and is obviously concerned for the security guard.?

The Holocaust Museum has had 28 million visitors since it was opened in 1993, including 88 heads of state. It houses exhibits and records relating to the Holocaust more than a half century ago, in which more than six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. It is well guarded by armed security officers and all visitors have to pass through metal detectors as they enter. The museum was due to be closed tomorrow as a mark of respect to the dead guard.

Cathy Lanier, Washington?s police chief said there had been no prior warning of the attack. Museum officials said the museum was full at the time of the shooting, with at least 2,000 visitors inside.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 5:45pm

If anyone hears of a fund to support the family of the deceased guard (who probably saved scores of people in the lobby), please let me know. That man is a hero in my eyes.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 6/10/09 at 9:08pm

That news is just horrible.

[opiv]

Posted: 6/11/09 at 12:31am

My little sister was there at the time, on the third floor. She couldn't have missed him/it by more than a few minutes.

This is just awful news.

And, despite all my efforts to not make this political, I can't help thinking back on those who were demanding Napolitano's resignation after the DHS report with anger.

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 6/11/09 at 12:56am

Wow! I feel so bad for the security guard- a poor innocent man. This is scary because I was just in DC over the weekend, and checked out this museum on Sunday!