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A St. Louis bar. A Jewish family. A trail of secrets in the MLK murder files

When Nina Gilden Seavey was 12, growing up in University City, the Air Force building on Washington University’s campus burned to the ground. Her father, Louis Gilden, a Jewish civil rights attorney whose parents had fled pogroms in Ukraine before settling above a kosher grocery store in St. Louis, represented the man accused of starting that fire: Howard Mechanic. Mechanic went underground and vanished for more than 30 years. It was a moment th…
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St. Louis Jewish Light broke the news in on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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