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10 Jun 2009 18:26

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U.S.: The guard who died in the Holocaust Memorial shooting saved many lives

  • Never take your guard force and security people for granted. They did exactly what they were supposed to do to protect people in the museum.
  • William Parsons • The chief of staff for the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., on the death of Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed by 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn. Johns may have died, but there were thousands of people inside the museum and he protected all of them from a Holocaust denier who was shooting to kill. • source