Tuesday, November 02, 1999
Franklin admits to slaying
'78 shooting killed Atlanta black man
BY CHAD ROEDEMEIER
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The white supremacist who shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has confessed to a 21-year-old slaying in which he killed a black Atlanta man who was married to a white woman, Atlanta police said Monday.
Atlanta police investigators last week went to see Joseph Paul Franklin, a 49-year-old death-row inmate at Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri.
Mr. Franklin told detectives that he shot Johnny Brookshire and Joy L. Williams in February 1978 in a northeast Atlanta neighborhood, police said. The 22-year-old Mr. Brookshire, who was black, died from his wounds. His wife, who was 23 at the time, was paralyzed from the waist down.
Mr. Franklin has been convicted of nine murders from Tennessee to Utah, including the Cincinnati killings of Dante Evans Brown and Darrell Lane. He has said he tried to start a race war by shooting blacks and interracial couples from 1977 to 1980.
He is to be executed in Missouri for the 1977 sniper killing of a Jewish man who was leaving a synagogue.
Mr. Franklin also admitted to the 1978 shooting of Mr. Flynt, who enraged Mr. Franklin by publishing pornographic photos of interracial couples.
The shooting left Mr. Flynt paralyzed.
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