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John Wayne Gacy, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald - how/why did we come to the norm of reporting 3 names for famous criminals, and was it a deliberate trend? Was it at the time or only decades later they became infamously known by the full 3 name?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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