Flynt’s Assailant Guilty in Murders
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A white-supremacist who shot Clinton confidant Vernon E. Jordan Jr. in 1980 and crippled Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 was convicted in Cincinnati of the 1980 murders of two black teenagers. The jury deliberated less than an hour before reaching a verdict on Joseph Paul Franklin, who has been convicted of nine murders and awaits execution in Missouri.
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