Interview with Richard Kalina
Published May 27, 2010
As guests were leaving Richard Kalina’s bar mitzvah at Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel on Oct. 8 1977, shots rang out. Years later, Joseph Paul Franklin would be convicted of the shooting, which killed Gerald Gordon and left two others wounded. Here, the Jewish Light speaks with Kalina about that day — in a preview of the Light special report “Faces of Hate.”