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Joseph Paul Franklin

1950 - 2013

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Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received four life sentences, as well as two death sentences. He also confessed to the attempted murders of magazine publisher and pornographer Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Paul Franklin has received more than 2,179,484 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joseph Paul Franklin is the 191st most popular extremist (down from 180th in 2019), the 6,325th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,654th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

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  • 3.34

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 191 out of 209. Before him are Irmgard Möller, Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Ahmad Sa'adat, Marshall Applewhite, and Dick Turpin. After him are Gary Gilmore, Édouard Vaillant, Zacarias Moussaoui, John Hinckley Jr., Ahmed Jabari, and Mildred Gillars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 320. Before him are Ljubomir Ljubojević, Renate Stecher, Natalya Bondarchuk, Antonio Di Pietro, Mathieu Carrière, and Mike Starr. After him are David Lloyd, Markie Post, Seyla Benhabib, Melissa Mathison, Nelinho, and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz. Among people deceased in 2013, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 296. Before him are Amparo Rivelles, Ramon Dekkers, Vladimir Yengibaryan, Chico Hamilton, Zdeněk Zikán, and Lorenzo Antonetti. After him are Antonio Puchades, Helen Thomas, Nino Bibbia, Sylvia Browne, Phạm Duy, and José Luis Sampedro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 6,325 out of 18,182. Before him are Gates McFadden (1949), Laurance Rockefeller (1910), Mike Starr (1950), William Castle (1914), Jack Colvin (1934), and Pauline Oliveros (1932). After him are Monique Alexander (1982), Anna Schwartz (1915), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962), Kay Sage (1898), Trip Hawkins (1953), and Willis H. O'Brien (1886).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 68. Before him are Stanley Williams (1953), Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), Robert Berdella (1949), Ross Ulbricht (1984), and Marshall Applewhite (1931). After him are Gary Gilmore (1940), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Mildred Gillars (1900), William Bonin (1947), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), and Anwar al-Awlaki (1971).

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