Duke would go back to LSU the next semester and finally summon the courage to stand up and speak at Free Speech Alley, until his crowds of dissenters grew so big he hired a security guard to protect him on campus. Franklin would begin privately planning his self-described effort to “spark a race war,” eventually bombing three synagogues and using a sniper rifle to shoot “as many evildoers” as he could: an interracial couple outside a shopping mall in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1977; another interracial couple in Atlanta in 1978; Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, as payback for publishing photos in
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