Liberty Park - Hate Crime - Salt Lake City, Utah
N 40° 44.760 W 111° 52.439
12T E 426215 N 4510928
On August 20th, 1980 Ted Fields and David Martin were shot and killed in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City Utah.
Waymark Code: WMBAWJ
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member cache_test_dummies
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Liberty Park was the scene of Utah's most notorious hate crimes. It was over 30 years ago when two black men were murdered in cold blood, in a quiet Salt Lake City neighborhood. The two men were jogging with white women, when racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin shot them.

Franklin was later convicted and sentenced to death for their murders and several others. Joseph Franklin, sits on death row in Missouri. Franklin is suspected in killing nearly two dozen people, and is notoriously know for shooting civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt.
Date of crime: 08/20/1980

Public access allowed: yes

Fee required: no

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