Dr. Barnett Slepian (Photo credit: J.P. McCoy, Associated Press
Lynne Slepian (Photo credit: Buffalo News
“I heard a popping noise. He looked at me and thought he’d been shot. I rushed over to him. He fell against me and then fell to the floor. I yelled to my oldest son. One of us called 911 and we grabbed some dish towels and we tried to stop the bleeding.” –Lynne Slepian
Dr. Barnett and Lynne Slepian attended services at Temple Beth El in memory of the anniversary of the death of Dr. Slepian’s father, Philip the night of his murder. After the couple returned home around 10 P.M., Mrs. Slepian recalled, they and their two youngest sons were in the large kitchen.
”I heard this loud pop,” she said. ”Then he went to the ground, and that was it,” she said. ”I think he bled out in 30 seconds. I never got a chance to say goodbye. All I did was yell at my kids to leave the room and watch my 15-year-old son scramble for towels to stop the bleeding.” She added, ”Hopefully, that memory will fade.”
Dr. Barnett Slepian executed October 23, 1998 in front of his family while in his kitchen preparing himself a meal a sniper’s bullet struck and killed him. This article “My Father’s Abortion War” appeared in the New York Times on January 22, 2006, the author Eyal Press wrote a book about the experience since Dr. Slepian covered deliveries for his father . The article was ” adapted from his book, “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the Conflict That Divided America,” published by Henry Holt.
“On Oct. 23, 1998, a Friday evening, at about 6, Barnett Slepian, an obstetric gynecologist from Amherst, N.Y., called my parents’ home. He was phoning because, that weekend, as on every third weekend of the month, he was scheduled to cover deliveries for my father. A few hours later, after attending a memorial service commemorating the death of his father, as he stood in his kitchen waiting for a bowl of split-pea soup to heat in the microwave, Dr. Slepian was shot in the back by a sniper hiding in the wooded area behind his home. Within a few hours he was pronounced dead…”
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