US Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter who shot and killed a security officer inside the Museum on Wednesday has been identified as Von Brunn, 88 y.o. man, artist, which has a long crime story. He was sentenced in 1983 to more than four years in prison for attempted diff charges in his Fed assault. He was released in 1989. Von Brunn ia an author of an anti-Semitic treatise, “Kill the Best Gentiles,” that he said no one would publish. He decries “the browning of America” and claims to expose a Jewish conspiracy “to destroy the White gene-pool.” Among the myriad of disturbing qualities of James Von Brunn is his apparent belief that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the United States and therefore has no right to the presidency.
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Von Brunn wrote, that “The ‘Holocaust’ Religion is destroying Western Civilization. The Aryan gene-pool dies, ‘unwept, unhonored and unsung.’”
His lengthy, often rambling online biography aside, law enforcement officials are trying to piece together details of Von Brunn’s life.
In his account of his “Federal Reserve caper,” the St. Louis native relates his “character shapers” — among them a schoolyard bully who beat him up, vacation days on the Mississippi River, his service on a PT boat in World War II, and what he said was his first trouble with the law — a year in jail for tussling with a sheriff on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1968, the year he moved to the area from New York City.
Von Brunn applied to have his art shown at the Troika Gallery in Easton, Md., around the time the gallery opened about 12 years ago, two of the owners, Laura Era and Jennifer Wharton, told The Associated Press. They said they turned him down because it was not up to their quality and that made Von Brunn angry.
“He stomped out,” Wharton said. “You don’t normally get that reaction from artists.”
They say his work was not strange or violent, but the artists they show have many years of professional experience.
One time Von Brunn arrived at the gallery livid because he had just seen a mixed race couple getting married at the garden of the historical society nearby, Era and Wharton said.
Von Brunn’s accounts of what shaped his character as a boy and young man are heavy with dark episodes blamed on Jews and other minorities. After each account, he draws a “moral.”
Among them:
“Life and Death are opposite sides of the same coin. Fate flips the coin.”
“Things to be proud of often involve high risk. You can’t hide from death. It always finds you.”
“It’s better to be strong than right — unless you like dying. Crowds hate good guys.”