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Title: Bachmann Proud to Share Origins with John Wayne... Gacy, Serial Killer
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The Atlantic
URL Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/poli ... be-home-john-wayne-gacy/39315/
Published: Jun 27, 2011
Author: The Atlantic
Post Date: 2011-06-27 15:16:37 by go65
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Comments: 35
Just after Michele Bachmman announced her presidential candidacy in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Monday morning, she told Fox News, "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." But The Washington Times' Stephen Dinan reports that Bachmann got her John Waynes mixed up. The rugged manly-man movie star was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, the "killer clown" who murdered 33 young men in the 1970s. The first time Gacy was convicted of a crime was in Waterloo, in 1968, when he was convicted of attempted homosexual assault. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He later moved back to Illinois, where he began murdering people.
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Little known fact - Paul Revere rode through the streets of Waterloo to warn Gacy that the police were coming.
Little known fact - Gacy was a big time Democrat and party supporter. Like attracts like, I guess.
So was Ted Bundy.
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