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Wilkes-Barre massacre: 43 years later, a community remembers

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It's listed in the top 20 mass murders in the history of the United States of America, and it happened right here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

George Banks went on a shooting rampage in the Wilkes-Barre area in September of 1982, and despite the passage of more than 40 years, the crime is still talked about by people in the area and beyond.

Northeastern Pennsylvania was the focus of the national and world media, and keep in mind, at that point in time, 1982, the words "mass shootings" were rarely used.

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