Kathleen Mikula, a 16-year-old girl from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, tragically lost her life on June 15, 1980. She was walking across the Washington Street Bridge with her boyfriend, Arthur Dale Smothers, when they were both shot by a sniper. Kathleen, who was white, and Arthur, who was black, were innocent victims of a racially motivated attack.
The perpetrator, Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist and serial killer, later confessed to the murders. Franklin had a long history of viole
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