When asked if the convicted assassin influenced his life, the younger Harrelson said: Their involvement in JFK’s death has often been linked to conspiracies theories.Ĭharles Harrelson died of a heart attack in prison in 2007. However, Lois Gibson, a well-known forensic artist, identified Harrelson as one of the “three tramps,” who were three mysterious men photographed shortly after the JFK assassination.
No one believed him and he later recanted, explaining that the confession was “an effort to elongate my life.” The theory was that if Chagra himself was innocent, shouldn’t Harrelson also be not guilty of murder?Ī judge didn’t agree with Harrelson’s lawyers and the elder Harrelson spent the rest of his days behind bars.Īt one point during his life sentences, the elder Harrelson made the audacious claim that he assassinated John F.
It helped that Chagra’s brother was a defense attorney who made a lot of money. He supposedly entered the witness protection program for helping the feds on other drug cases. Rather than see the convicted assassin as a father, Harrelson saw his elder as someone he could befriend.Įven more astonishing, the Hollywood A-lister said he easily spent $2 million (yes, that’s million) in legal fees trying to get his father a new trial.Ĭhagra, the drug lord, was acquitted of conspiracy charges in connection with the assassination. Even though the two were estranged, the actor said he tried to have a relationship with his father beginning in the early 1980s. Reconnecting With His SonĪ judge handed down two life sentences to Charles Harrelson in 1981.
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His mother confirmed that the man on trial for murdering a federal judge was indeed Woody’s father. Curiosity got the better of the young man, and he asked his mother if the elder Harrelson was any relation. The actor heard a radio news broadcast discuss the murder trial of Charles V. Woody Harrelson had no idea about his father’s checkered occupation until he was listening to the radio one day. It was the first time in American history a sitting federal judge was assassinated.Īn intense manhunt ensued, and the FBI finally caught Charles Harrelson and arrested him for murder. The murderer used a high-powered rifle and a scope to kill Wood outside of his home in San Antonio as the judge went to get into his car. The judge’s reputation proved to be his tragic undoing.Ī single assassin’s bullet to the small of Wood’s back on May 29, 1979, felled the tough-as-nails judge. in El Paso, Texas, in July of 1979.ĭefense attorneys nicknamed Wood “Maximum John” because of the harsh life sentences he handed down to drug dealers. Chagra forked over $250,000 because he faced a life sentence for drug smuggling. Texas drug lord Jimmy Chagra hired Harrelson to kill someone who stood in his way. Houston Police Department Charles Harrelson, Woody Harrelson’s father, in a mugshot from 1960.
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