Unruh sat in the dark until 2:20 a.m., bitterly stewing through multiple on-screen loops of the movies. Unfortunately for Unruh, 28 years old at the time, traffic held him up and by the time he reached theater, a well-known gay pick up spot on Market St., his date was gone. Unruh, however, wasn’t interested in the pictures. He was supposed to meet a man with whom he’d been having a weeks-long affair. On the bill that night was a double feature, the double-crossing gangster movie I Cheated the Law and The Lady Gambles, in which Barbara Stanwyck plays a poker-and-dice-game addict. He left his Camden, New Jersey, apartment and headed to the Family Theatre in downtown Philadelphia.
On Labor Day, 1949, Howard Unruh decided to go to the movies. Police forced him out of the apartment with tear gas. Howard Unruh, a war veteran, killed 13 people by shooting from a window down into a crowded street.
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