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  1. Robert Nixon (July 19, 1919 – June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937.

  2. Location: Illinois/California, USA. Status: Executed by electrocution in Illinois on June 15, 1939. Robert Nixon killed five women and injured one other in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1936 to 1938. His claim to fame was his very basic but odd choice of murder weapon.

  3. Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist. His films, often focused on the battles of tribal peoples and field biologists, include Amazon Diary, America The Beautiful, The End of the Game, Fossey's War, Gorillas in the Mist, Endangered Species, The Last Rivermen, American Heroes, Mission Blue, Great ...

  4. Robert Nixon killed five women and injured one other in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1936 to 1938. His claim to fame was his very basic but odd choice of murder weapon.

  5. May 13, 2019 · Robert Nixon confessed to the five murders and was sentenced to death. In 1939, Robert Nixon was executed in the electric chair at the Cook County Jail. Some of the incidents in the novel Native Son are fictionalized versions of the Robert Nixon case.

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    Robert Nixon may refer to: Bob Nixon (Zimbabwean politician), Zimbabwean politician. Robert A. Nixon (1900–1948), American politician. Robert Nixon (politician) (born 1928), retired Canadian politician. Robert Nixon (comics) (1939–2002), British comics artist.

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  8. Apr 18, 2008 · On June 16, 1939, Robert Nixon went to the chair at the Cook County Jail. Thus, he did not live to read 1940‘s smash lit-hit Native Son , which explained that his predicament was destiny, a societal byproduct of racist racial conditioning.

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