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Office wall painting by girls' slayer
Associated Press · February 17, 1959
"You Gott'a Have Heart" is what painting was called by Ponell Johnson, 27-year-old Negro who shot and killed two young women today after he had been fired. Johnson hung the painting on the wall of the shipping office where he was employed. He returned to kill the women with a rifle. He said, after he was overpowered and arrested that "they (the girls) laughed at my paintings."
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