William Cohen And Wife Witnessed Holocaust Museum Shooting (VIDEO)

Witnesses to the shooting at Washington D.C.'s Holocaust Museum related to reporters the fear and confusion inside the building.

Defense Secretary William Cohen and his wife were among them. The couple were about forty feet away from the shooting, they said. His wife, Janet Langhart, got teary-eyed speaking of the security guard's death. "I'm just really sorry for his family," she said.

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"We hit the floor," one museum visitor who was inside the building, near the entrance, told Fox News. They said the museum staff told everyone to run, and they ran out the back door. "I was concerned for my wife and grandkids," he said, saying that his family huddled on the ground because they were afraid to move.

The same witness said he and his family were close enough to be shot by the gunman. "We didn't know if he was gonna ... if we were next."

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"Nobody really knew what to do," said a person who was in the children's stories section of the museum. He said he heard the shots but didn't know for sure that something was wrong until three kids ran into the room with a "horrified, scared look."

An Israeli citizen living said the reportedly anti-Semitic attack was "scary" and "disturbing."

Comments

[lady49]

I believe that the shooter who murdered the doctor in his church and this crazy guy who killed that poor man at the holocaust museum is a DIRECT EFFECT of the hatred that is spewed from the Fox news network by way of Hannity, O'reiley and BECK.
FOX NEWS pool has become a NEW CESS POOL for hatred!!
I absolutely agree that it is TIME FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE OF AMERICA TO STAND UP AND FIGHT THIS NONSENSICAL HATRED!
Limbaugh's show should be cancelled!!!

[glorysong]

I agree. But what can we do? Anybody has any ideas? All this hate needs to stop.

[vet-of4renwarz]

Write to the sponsors of the show... hit them where it would hurt most.. their pockets... everything needs money these days.. why would corporations sponsor these guys if we ban their products ?

[RobertHenryEller]

What can we do?

The Iranians can risk their lives by the hundreds of thousands for democracy, and we can do nothing to stop the poison of Fox News?

Please.

We know what to do.

Do we have as much love for democracy as Iranians, or not?

[Bronxdude]

In their deluded quest to concoct reality, foment paranoia, instigate discord and kowtow to their radical base, while masquerading as journalists, closet racist and morally corrupt hate mongers O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Gingrich, and Beck are seeking to deliberately ignite a race war, pitting American against American (unlike the 50s, however, the ensuing violence will be reciprocal). Using code words, Limbaugh and Gingrich spew inflammatory rhetoric designed to agitate Christian fanatics, segregationists, supremacist ideologues, and conservative malcontents and then claim no complicity when these psychopaths commit evil acts of violence aimed at restoring America’s “traditional values,” which is code for reinstituting Jim Crow and other degenerate, misogynistic, and xenophobic policies associated with pre-1960s America. Limbaugh and Senator Shelby (Alabama: another bastion of low IQ bigots) continue to question President Obama’s nationality and then cry innocent when dim-witted, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing republican misfits sully our President. O’Reilly led the ruthless, hate-filled campaign against Dr. George Tiller and then claimed no involvement when Tiller was murdered. O’Reilly is a culpable coward, and should be tried for murder. Gingrich longs for the “White Only” signs once so prevalent, and wants republicans (and deregulated big business) to remain in power at any cost, even if it means civil war. Cowardly, draft-dodging despots like Limbaugh and Hannity have no qualms about using military force to spread capitalism under the guise of democracy, as long as deferments can be selectively granted to those of acceptable persuasion (wink, wink).