Crime History: Racist kills two of his 20 victims

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On this day, March 4, 1981, avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin was convicted of killing two black men who were jogging with two white women in Salt Lake City.

Franklin since has confessed to the 1978 assassination attempt that paralyzed Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and other killings.

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