Amber, Scott, and Kristy talk about Howard Unruh. There's a first time for everything, and unfortunately, thanks to Howard Unruh, that first time would reverberate through 20th century America and into the 21st century. 

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Sources:

Meyer Berger. NY Times. “Veteran Kills 12 in Mad Rampage on Camden St.” https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/090749nj-shoot.html

Patrick Sauer. “The Story of the First Mass Murder in U.S. History.” Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/

IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Findagrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7931504/maurice-j.-cohen

Northjersey.com https://www.northjersey.com/picture-gallery/news/new-jersey/2019/08/28/photos-howard-unruh-shoots-16-sept-6-1949-camden/2065185001/

Barbara Boyer. Philadelphia Inquirer. “Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13.” https://web.archive.org/web/20110310172044/http://www.dvrbs.com/Camden/CamdenNJ-HowardUnruh.htm

Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh

David M. Zimmer. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/28/wwii-veteran-became-americas-first-mass-shooter-1949/2139054001/

Biblegateway.com.   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NIV

Philly.com. “Howard Barton Unruh, examined.” http://media.philly.com/documents/Unruh.pdf

https://weirdnj.com/stories/howard-unruh/

https://murderpedia.org/male.U/u/unruh-howard.htm

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh

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