Holocaust Museum

Guard Who Returned Fire Speaks About Holocaust Museum Shooting

Associated Press | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


WHITE PLAINS, Md. (AP) -- After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Me...

Over Two Days Hannity Devotes One Sentence To Holocaust Museum Murder

Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Fix News host Sean Hannity only devoted one sentence to discussing the shooting at the Holocaust Museum on his program this week, Media Matters report...

James Von Brunn's Son Slams His "Cowardice"

ABC News | MICHAEL S. JAMES, PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and THERESA COOK | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


A son of the 88-year-old white supremacist who allegedly started a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is slamming his father's "cowardice"...

Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR

Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Rachel Sklar

This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...

My Daughter's Chilling Account of Years at Holocaust Museum

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

"The entire time I worked there, we always expected something terrible to happen. I was very lucky it didn't while I was there -- but it wasn't for lack of trying."

Holocaust Museum Reopens Two Days After Shooting

AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holo...

Govt. Could Buy Security Vests For Holocaust Museum Officers: Union Official

Huffington Post | Laura Dean | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Contributing Reporting By Sam Stein An executive official at the union representing security officers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ...

Wackenhut Failed To Provide Security Vests To Holocaust Museum Guards

AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A union official says he asked for protective vests for guards at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum two years ago, but they never ...

James von Brunn, Yet Another Guy With a Gun Making the Rules

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Josh Sugarmann

Sometimes words are more than just words. Especially when those listening have their finger on the trigger of a gun.

What Right Wing Threat?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


John Wellington Ennis

Maybe continually over-simplifying every issue in politics into a siege upon America actually helps bring about a siege mentality in Americans.

Conservative Media Freaked Out Over DHS Report On Right Wing Extremists (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


When a Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism was released earlier this year, the conservative media responded with outrage an...

The Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Blogging

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

It is good to see so many progressive voices condemning this bigoted and twisted act of violence. However, much of the analysis of this incident seems to skirt a more troubling and confounding question.

Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue

Michael Rowe | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Michael Rowe

There was a time when intellectual honesty was not considered unpatriotic; when compassion for, and understanding of, your fellow man was a sign of strength, not weakness.

Sam Stein

James Von Brunn Apparently Part Of Obama "Birther" Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Among the myriad of disturbing qualities of James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who shot and killed a security officer inside the Holocaust Museum on...

Jason Linkins

Shepard Smith Says His Email Is Becoming "More And More Frightening" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


Time will tell if Shep Smith's colleagues at Fox stop taking these sorts of emails casually. Smith clearly could do that no longer.

What White Supremacists Are Saying Today About Holocaust Museum Gunman

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

I visited, for the first time, the site of Stormfront, the major white nationalist/neo-Nazi hate site. The postings are mainly critical of his actions, as they hurt the cause. Here's some of the flavor.

William Cohen And Wife Witnessed Holocaust Museum Shooting (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


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

Holocaust Museum Shooter Von Brunn Is Elderly White Supremacist

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of th...

Holocaust Museum Shooting: Obama Saddened

AP | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he is shocked by the shooting at the Holocaust museum near the White House. He called it an "outrageou...

Sam Stein

DHS Report Warned Against Anti-Semitic Violence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


A heavily criticized Department of Homeland Security Report on right-wing extremism that was released in April warned precisely of the type of violent...

On the Shooting at the National Holocaust Museum

Rep. Steve Cohen | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Rep. Steve Cohen

A despicable act of violence has occurred at a place dedicated to peace and remembrance, and in a building that is synonymous with respect.

James W. Von Brunn: Holocaust Museum Shooting Suspect Is White Supremacist

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Investigators found a notebook in the car believed to belong to alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn with a list of other targets in the c...

Holocaust Museum Shooting In Washington D.C.

AP | NAFEESA SYEED and DAVID ESPO | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Me...