Vernal Express | 1982-06-04 | Page 2 | Franklin Indicated in Jordon Shooting

Franklin indicted in Jordan shooting Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist convicted con-victed of murdering two black men in Salt Lake City, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Indiana for the shooting of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan two years ago in Fort Wayne. Franklin, long considered a suspect in the shooting of the National Urban League president, presi-dent, is being held at a federal penitentiary in Marion, 111. Jordan was shot in the back and critically wbunded with a high-powered rifle outside the Fort Wayne Marriot Inn when he stepped out of a car driven by a white woman.