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At approximately 12:50 p.m. on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn entered the
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in
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, with a slide-action rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other special police officers returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.Del Quentin Wilber
Von Brunn, white supremacist Holocaust museum shooter, dies
, ''Washington Post'' (January 7, 2010), B01.
Von Brunn was charged in federal court on June 11, 2009, with
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and firearms violations. On July 29, 2009, von Brunn was
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by a federal grand jury on seven counts. Included in the indictment were three
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charges, as well as four charges which made him eligible for the
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. In September 2009, a judge ordered von Brunn to undergo a competency evaluation to determine whether or not he could stand trial. On January 6, 2010, von Brunn died of natural causes while awaiting trial. Von Brunn was a
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,
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, and
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. He had previously been convicted of entering the Federal Reserve Building with various weapons in 1981 and attempting to place the members of the
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, who he considered to be treasonous, under
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.


Background

The Holocaust Museum has previously been a target of white supremacist terrorism since its establishment in 1993. In 2002, two white supremacists plotted to attack the museum using a fertilizer bomb, though their plan was foiled after their arrest.


Shooting

At about 12:49 p.m., 88-year-old James von Brunn drove his car to the 14th Street entrance of the museum. Von Brunn entered the museum when Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns opened the door for him. Inside, the museum was crowded with visiting schoolchildren. Also present at the museum during the shooting was former
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William Cohen, awaiting his wife Janet Langhart; the two were at the museum for the premiere of Langhart's one-act play, '' Anne and Emmett''. The play imagines a conversation between two teenagers,
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victim
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and
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. Her play was to be presented in honor of the eightieth anniversary of Anne Frank's birth. Authorities said he raised a Winchester Model 1906 .22-caliber
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and shot Special Police Officer Johns once in the upper torso; Johns later died of his injuries at the George Washington University Hospital. Two other Special Police Officers stationed with Officer Johns, Harry Weeks and Jason "Mac" McCuiston, then exchanged fire with von Brunn, wounding him with a shot to the face. According to police officers at the scene, a third person was injured by broken glass but refused treatment at the hospital. In total, 11 shots were fired during the incident (three from von Brunn and eight from Weeks and McCuiston). Museum officials said that "the entire incident unfolded in approximately two minutes."


Aftermath

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'' reported that "if it weren't for the quick response of the private guards on duty, more people could have been killed or wounded."
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stated that the officers' efforts "to bring this gunman down so quickly ... saved the lives of countless people... This could have been much, much worse." After the shooting, the nearby U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building,
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, and the
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's Sidney R. Yates Federal Building were closed. Portions of 14th Street and Independence Avenue in the
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quadrant were closed until later in the night. The car driven by von Brunn was found double-parked in front of the museum and tested for explosives. The FBI and Washington, D.C. police chief Cathy L. Lanier said that it appeared von Brunn was acting alone at the time of the shooting, and the FBI said it had no knowledge of any threat against the museum. The museum's director of security said they receive threats, but "nothing this significant recently".


Victim

Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns (October 4, 1969 – June 10, 2009), a Temple Hills, Maryland native, was an employee of Wackenhut who was, at the time of the shooting, stationed at the door of the museum when von Brunn entered with a .22 caliber long rifle and shot him. He later died at the George Washington University Hospital. His funeral was held on June 19, 2009, at Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington, Maryland, with 2,000 attendees, and he was subsequently interred. The
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established a memorial fund for the family.


Investigation and legal

After the shooting, federal authorities raided his apartment and seized a rifle, ammunition, computers, a handwritten
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, and a painting of
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standing adjacent to
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. The FBI also stated it discovered
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on one of the seized computers. Von Brunn was charged in federal court on June 11, 2009, with
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and firearms violations; he pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. On July 29, 2009, von Brunn was
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on seven counts, including four which made him eligible for the
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. In September 2009, a judge ordered von Brunn to undergo a competency evaluation to determine whether or not he could stand trial.


Potential motives

Police said they found a notebook on von Brunn that contained a list of District locations, including the
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; they dispatched bomb squads to at least 10 sites. The notebook also contained this passage, signed by von Brunn: "You want my weapons—this is how you'll get them.
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is a lie. Obama was created by
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s. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America's money. Jews control the mass media. The 1st Amendment is abrogated henceforth." Several news agencies have noted the timing of the June 10 shooting; it came shortly after Obama's June 5 visit to and speech at the
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, and that "President Obama’s recent visit to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in
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, may have set off the shooter." On his website, von Brunn stated that his conviction in the 1980s was by "a
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jury, Jew/Negro attorneys" and that he was "sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge." A
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denied his appeal.


Perpetrator

Von Brunn was born in
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,
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, the first of two children. His father was a native of
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, and a superintendent at the Scullin Steel Mill in Houston during
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. His mother was a piano teacher and homemaker. Von Brunn enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis in August 1938, and received his
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degree in journalism in April 1943. During his time at the university, von Brunn was said to have been president of the
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chapter, and a varsity football player. He served in the
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from 1943 to 1957, and was the
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of
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159 during the
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, receiving a commendation and three
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s. Von Brunn had worked as an advertising executive and producer in
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for twenty years. In the late 1960s, he relocated to the
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, where he continued to do advertising work and resumed painting. In the years after the war, numerous people who were associated with Von Brunn said that he regularly complained that the United States had fought on the wrong side in the Second World War. Terry Martin, a William Woods art professor who met Von Brunn, said:
"He said he fought for the wrong side. He said everything in this country wasn’t what he fought for; everything was upside down. He didn't like minorities."
In the early 1970s, Von Brunn briefly worked for
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, the publishing arm of the Holocaust-denying
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. Von Brunn's arrest history dates back at least as far as the mid-1960s. In 1968, he received a six-month jail sentence in Maryland for fighting with a
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during an incident at the county jail. He had earlier been arrested for
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following an altercation at a local restaurant in 1966. Von Brunn was arrested in 1981 for attempted
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and
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-taking of members of the
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after approaching the
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's
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armed with a revolver, knife, and sawed-off shotgun. Von Brunn later described his actions as a "
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for
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." He reportedly complained of "high
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s" during the incident and was disarmed without any shots being fired, after threatening a security guard with a .38 caliber pistol. He reportedly claimed he had a bomb, which was found to be only a device designed to look like a bomb. He was convicted in 1983 for burglary, assault, weapons charges, and attempted kidnapping. Von Brunn's sentence was completed by September 15, 1989, after he had served six and a half years in prison. After he was released he successfully tested for and joined
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; however, he was eventually dropped from membership for failing to pay his annual dues. Von Brunn was a member of the American Friends of the British National Party, a group that raised funds in the
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for the
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and "rights for whites"
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(BNP). The group had been addressed on at least two occasions by
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, an ex-member of the National Front and chairman of the BNP. A BNP spokesperson claimed after the shooting that the party had "never heard of" von Brunn. In 2004 and 2005 he lived in Hayden Lake, Idaho, the town where
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—a
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organization led by Richard Butler—was based until 2001. Von Brunn was living in
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at the time of the incident. Von Brunn had the
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ID# 07128-016 and was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner,
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. On January 6, 2010, von Brunn died in a hospital located near the prison. According to a statement by his attorney, von Brunn had "a long history of poor health," including sepsis and chronic congestive heart failure.


Reaction

upThe day after the shooting, the Holocaust Museum's flag flew at half-staff in memory of the murdered guard, Stephen Tyrone Johns. The Israeli embassy in Washington condemned the attack.
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said, "This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms." The
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, Anti-Defamation League, and FBI stated they had been monitoring von Brunn's Internet postings, but were unable to take action because his comments had not crossed the line from
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into illegal threats or incitement. On June 11, 2009, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington led a prayer
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that took place in front of the museum to honor Stephen Johns, the slain officer. Approximately 100 people attended the event, including officials from the Israeli and German embassies. The Council on American–Islamic Relations condemned the attack as well. When the museum reopened on June 12, 2009, Director Sara Bloomfield said attendance was normal or even higher than usual. Many visitors said their attendance was a statement against hate and intolerance. A 17-year-old girl who was in the museum the day of the shooting said, "It's important to come back, because if you don't, they win. It's a form of terrorism." On the
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Internet forum Stormfront, some users criticized von Brunn's actions, saying they hurt the forum's cause. Others supported him in threads that were later removed, some of which later reappeared.


See also

*
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* List of attacks on Jewish institutions


References


External links


"Kill the Best Gentiles!"
James von Brunn's book
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
''official website''
"In Memoriam: Stephen Tyrone Johns"
by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
''Voices on Antisemitism'' interview with Scott Simon
by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum *

''U.S. v. von Brunn'' (June 11, 2009), by
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"James Von Brunn: An ADL Backgrounder Beliefs and Activities"
by the Anti-Defamation League
Statement by Erik von Brunn
by
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