[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 196 (Monday, December 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S18348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DEATH OF HARRY KAUFMAN

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, last month, two thugs squirted a bottle of 
flammable liquid into a subway token booth in Brooklyn's Bedford-
Stuyvesant neighborhood. They then lit a match, igniting an explosion 
that blew the token booth apart.
  Engulfed in flames, the booth's operator, 50-year-old Harry Kaufman, 
suffered second- and third-degree burns over nearly 80 percent of his 
body as well as severe lung injuries. Mr. Kaufman was subsequently 
taken to the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. The two men who 
committed this vicious crime continue to remain at large.
  The Brooklyn attack closely resembled two scenes depicted in the new 
move ``The Money Train,'' a Columbia Pictures production starring Woody 
Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. Since the movie's November 22 debut, there 
have been a total of seven separate copycat fire attacks on New York 
City subway token booths.
  Yesterday, after a 14-day fight for his life, Harry Kaufman passed 
away.
  I take this opportunity to publicly express my deepest condolences to 
Stella Kaufman, Harry Kaufman's wife, to their 17-year-old son Adrian, 
and to the rest of the Kaufman family.

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