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<text id=89TT2509>
<title>
Sep. 25, 1989: American Notes:Kentucky
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 29
American Notes
KENTUCKY
Another AK-47 Massacre
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<p> At 8:30 a.m. last Thursday, John Tingle, an employee at
Louisville's Standard-Gravure Co., was startled to see a former
co-worker. Joseph Wesbecker, 47, was carrying a duffel bag, an
AK-47 rifle and a 9-mm handgun. "I told them I'd be back,"
Wesbecker growled at Tingle. "Back off and get out of the way."
Tingle and several other workers quickly locked themselves in
a bathroom, and Wesbecker took an elevator to the third-floor
offices, looking for bosses or supervisors. Finding none, he
worked his way downstairs, gunning down victims.
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<p> When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with
the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors
counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five
critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another
nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and
killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker,
a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his
ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness.
Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been
talking about this for a year. He's paranoid, and he thought
everyone was after him."
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