The date is march, six, nineteen, seventy eight and one of america's most liked and despised him and had just had lunch with his attorney and just heading back to the courthouse and when it county georgia to attend one of his many famous trials. Bullets start ringing out and both men dropped to the ground after being hit. What they don't know is that the man who would later be dubbed the racist killer is making his getaway one of the video thumbs of the crime will have some scars, but together will never walk again and live through periods of agonizing pain and that's how it goes with bullets. Sometimes they caused little damage and sometimes they ruined a person forever. But before we get into the technical details about being shot, we guess you want to know who this man was was both admired and despised. His name was larry flynt, we say was because he died in early twenty twenty one back in the day when this intrepid entrepreneur was shocking to us with his pornographic magazine hustler, it wasn't exactly popular with a good part of the country. These folks didn't want what they called smart, damaging the mind denies as the youth. After seeing that flynn had turned what was a small ninety newsletter into a national sensation, as as magazines were selling in the millions he ended up in court fighting for his first amendment rights, while using some very colorful language, then one day a mad men and serial killer named joseph paul franklin found one of flint's magazines. This guy's racism was the reason he killed, perhaps over twenty people, and it's also why he shot flint and his attorney something he wasn't charged with anything in hell. So he went down for the other murders many years after the shooting he admitted he did it because he'd seen an interracial couple making out in one of the magazines sell think he couldn't accept. It franklin was a big fan of adolf hitler's ideology. He later said this about what he saw in the magazine. Just made me sick through the magazine down and thought I'm going to kill that guy he picked up his ruger forty four caliber semi automatic rifle and we went in search of the porn. King franklin was executed for his crimes at twenty thirteen, at which point mister flint was still getting around in a wheelchair floods attorney gene reeves jr was also seriously wounded, but after spending one month in hospital, it was good to go. That's because when his body was penetrated by cold hard steel plant, the whim of fate, he wasn't hit in such a way to cause lifelong injuries for flynn centuries. It was revealed that the bullet had caused severe spinal cord damage. The new york times at the time wrote in the first paragraph of a story that the chief neurosurgeon doctor, george tindall, who had removed a bullet from flint's back and said he had a fifty fifty chance of ever walking. Again he told the press. There were no reflexes in the lower extremities and there's a loss of sensation from his mid dies down. Things were bad. Very bad flint would not walk again and with him being notorious for his love of sex. He wasn't exactly over the moon about losing his ability to use as member this was later rectified with the use of a penile implant. Still that hardly put a silver lining on the darkest clubs that followed flint around for the rest of his life that bullet that hit him in the spinal canal at a spot called the third lumbar vertebra back then, when such a thing happened, there was only a fifty percent chance that damaged part would regenerate. Even now, if a bullet hits you down there, you might not ever walk again at the time. The surgeon also said there had been damage to the nerves at the end of the spinal column. That surgeon didn't know, then, that these nerve injuries with flaked flint for the rest of his life flint lives in most of its.