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John Britton
1925 – July 29, 1994
American physician and murder victim (1925 – 1994)
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John Bayard Britton was an American physician. He was assassinated in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. Britton's death was the second assassination of a Pensacola abortion provider in under a year and a half; he had replaced Dr. David Gunn after the latter's 1993 murder by another anti-abortionist.
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- Anniversary · July 29
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