Woody Harrelson's dad dies in prison.

[foreigner]

Charles Harrelson was convicted of murder in the May 29, 1979, slaying of U.S. District Judge John Wood Jr. outside his San Antonio, Texas, home. Prosecutors said a drug dealer hired him to kill Wood because he did not want the judge to preside at his upcoming trial.

Wood, known as "Maximum John" for the sentences he gave in drug cases, was the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century.

Charles Harrelson was transferred to Supermax, the highest-security federal prison, after attempting to break out of an Atlanta federal prison in 1995.

 

Woody Harrelson the bartender on "Cheers" beginning in 1985 and went on to star in films including "Natural Born Killers," "White Men Can't Jump" and "The People vs. Larry Flynt."

Woody Harrelson was just 7 when his father was first sent to prison, for murdering a Texas businessman. He was in college when his father was convicted of the judge's assassination.

 

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I remember the murder .. Charles shot the judge on a Sunday morning as the judge was getting into his car .. seems like it was with a rifle from a distance.

The hiring drug dealer was a Mexican syndicate big time importer.

 

Woody's dad was known to hang with high end 'dancers' & use huge quantities of 'party favors'

 

 

 

[Old Hippie]

He has been linked to the Kennedy assassination as well, having been photographed near the grassy knoll.