Mass Shooting (Camden 1949)
On September 6, 1949, Howard Barton Unruh (1921-2009), a 28-year-old World War II veteran, murdered thirteen people in twelve minutes along the 3200 block of River Road in Cramer Hill, a working-class neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey. Dubbed the "Walk of Death" by the press at the time, the shooting stunned Camden and attracted widespread news coverage and ...