page_title: Leon Klinghoffer
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Leon Klinghoffer / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: This family archive photo of my Uncle Rudek with Leon, on 1947 they were best friends
context_page_description: Leon Klinghoffer was an American man who was shot, killed and thrown overboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the terrorist group known as the Palestine Liberation Front who hijacked the ship in 1985.
context_section_description: While he was growing up, Klinghoffer worked in his family's hardware store, Klinghoffer Supply Company. In 1942, he joined the Army Air Corps and was trained as a navigator. He flew missions in B-24 Liberator bombers with the famous 93rd Bombardment Group in the European theater of World War II.
  After his honorable discharge from the army in January 1944, Klinghoffer and his brother Albert took over the store and began to invent appliances. A few years later, the two brothers founded the Roto-Broil Corporation of America. Their feature item was the Roto-Broil Rotisserie Oven or Roto-Broil 400, a popular kitchen appliance in the 1950s.
caption: Leon Klinghoffer, After World War II waiting for passage to Canada and Israel
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