CHICAGO — Jeffery Breslow’s life and the lives of those he worked with making toys for children were shattered on the morning of July 27, 1976, when another employee named Al Keller walked into his place of work with two handguns and began to kill.
“I heard only a popping sound when Keller fired his pistol. I didn’t recognize the noise and guessed it might be a toy gun,” writes Breslow, whose name was near the top of the 14 names later found on the killer’s “hit list.”
This tragic event lasted only two minutes inside the fortresslike headquarters of Marvin Glass & Associates at the corner of LaSalle Street and Chicago Avenue, at the time the leading toy design company in the world. Three employees died and two others were severely wounded. The shooter died by suicide.
