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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 seven life sentences, as well as one death sentence. 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 2,316,539 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Paul Franklin is the 232nd most popular extremist (down from 191st in 2019), the 7,785th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,312th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Extremist.

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  • 46.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 232 out of 283. Before him are Mikhail Popkov, Marvin Heemeyer, Donato Bilancia, John Hinckley Jr., Édouard Vaillant, and Warren Jeffs. After him are Abubakar Shekau, Francis Parker Yockey, Yvan Colonna, Abdul Quader Molla, Howard Marks, and Robert Pickton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 428. Before him are Arianna Huffington, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Savio Hon, Hugo Hovenkamp, Lee Tamahori, and Peter Gould. After him are Jhala Nath Khanal, Tess Harper, George Thorogood, Peter Jurasik, Kirka, and Pascal Yoadimnadji. Among people deceased in 2013, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 353. Before him are Renato Ruggiero, David R. Ellis, Lidiya Vertinskaya, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Eddi Arent, and Danièle Dupré. After him are Giuseppe Casari, Stan Musial, Lucyna Winnicka, Bill Smith, Phạm Duy, and Giovanni Cheli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 7,785 out of 20,380. Before him are Grant Show (1962), Alice Pearce (1917), Catherine Oxenberg (1961), Diane Warren (1956), Mandy Moore (1984), and Daniel Kinsey (1902). After him are Charles Bassett (1931), John Lipsky (1947), Billy Cunningham (1943), Willard Scott (1934), Dorothy Cheney (1916), and Hélène de Pourtalès (1868).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Joseph Paul Franklin ranks 81. Before him are Robert Berdella (1949), John List (1925), Mildred Gillars (1900), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), and Warren Jeffs (1955). After him are Francis Parker Yockey (1917), Bobby Joe Long (1953), Eric Rudolph (1966), Anwar al-Awlaki (1971), Jared Fogle (1977), and Amy Fisher (1974).

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