This is episode 2 46 how two of boston’s strangest shootings fueled the gun control debates of their times. Welcome to hub history or we go far beyond the freedom trail to share our favorite stories from the history of boston, the hub of the universe.
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A wire service story that includes more details of how Hunter stole the plane.An overview of the flight from the Deseret News, including the suggestion to send up a helicopter to shoot down the plane.Initial coverage of the strafing from the Globe on May 10 and and from the New York Times on May 11.Documents from Hunter’s 1998 appeal that describe the crime scene.Background on Hunter’s criminal record, their marriage breakdown.Hat tip to Craig Fitzgerald for this Bang Shift article where I first learned about the strafer.
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NBC News coverage of the strafer, plus some raw footage.AugUrbana (IL) Daily Courier: Norma released from jail.Murder on Trial 1620-2002, by Lawrence B.A case overview by Judge R Marc Kantrowitz.March 2 Brisbane (Australia) Courier-Mail: Faber’s confession makes headlines down under.Dedham: Heroic and Historic Tales from Shiretown, by James Parr.Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts, by Alan Rogers.A post from the Needham History Center gives background on the fallen officers and explains how the suspects were identified.June 7, 1935: Millens and Faber are executed.June 5, 1935: Millens refuse to ask for clemency.Apr 26, 1935: more Millen siblings implicated in jailbreak attempt.Jan 12, 1935: Millens as an reason stronger gun control is needed.Jan 11, 1935: Attempt to break the Millens out of Dedham jail.September 25: Last day to register your legal machine gun before the 1934 firearms act goes into effect.August 31: How will the firearms act of 1934 affect local machine gun owners.May 1: Abe’s fiancee testifies against him.March 1: arguments for and against stronger state gun control.
February 28: searching DC safe deposit box.February 27: stolen guns found in Washington DC.June 7, 1935: Irving Millen, Murton Millen, and Abraham Faber are executed.April 18, 1935: moved from Dedham to death row in Charlestown.March 2: Irving Millen confesses to save Norma.February 26: Abe Faber arrested in Boston.February 3: Stolen Tommy gun used in deadly robbery.Pre-1934 advertisements for the Thompson submachine gun.
In what has to be the only recorded example of someone going postal in the sky, a disgruntled postal worker killed his ex wife, stole a plane, and spent hours shooting up downtown Boston with an AK-47. The second crime we’ll discuss took place a generation later, in 1989, in the middle of a heated national debate that resulted in George HW Bush’s 1989 limited assault weapons ban, and the stronger 1994 ban that was allowed to expire in 2004. Sadly, this deadly crime took place just months before the 1934 federal firearms act made it illegal for civilians to own machine guns. The first crime took place in the sleepy Boston suburb of Needham in 1934, when three gangsters used a stolen Tommy gun to rob the Needham savings bank and murder two policemen. You might assume I am talking about an incident that happened after the school shootings in Parkland Florida in 2018 or Columbine in 1999, but I’m not. Two deadly murders were committed in and around Boston using military grade assault weapons, and both of them happened in the middle of a raging debate around gun control in this country.
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