On Sunday, a synagogue in Texas, the United States, was attacked. Four persons had been kidnapped by a gunman. The day-long siege at Colleyville's Congregation Beth Israel synagogue concluded in shooting, with all hostages freed unharmed and the suspect killed.
Forty years ago, on the morning of March 20, 1980, Morty Gilbert was sitting in his Midtown office at Elektra Asylum Records when a stranger arrived in his doorway. The man was wearing a down jacket and jeans. He carried a briefcase. “He looked very average,” Gilbert, the record company’s then-sales manager, recalled. “He seemed to …