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Jack Gilbert Graham

Jack Gilbert Graham was a mass murderer who killed 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb on board a United Airlines DC-6[?] taking off from Denver, Colorado on November 1, 1955. Jack's mother was on board the plane - the motive for the bombing was to claim $37,500 worth of life insurance[?] money, from policies bought in the airport just before take-off.

Jack Gilbert Graham was executed in the Colorado State Penitentiary gas chamber on January 11, 1957.

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