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In case you wondered what happened to Charles Ogletree Jr.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/10/27/charles-and-pam-ogletree-long-last-walk-love/fHcJ2LrJ6lOtje8P7MBLzL/story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtabHis name is Charles J. Ogletree Jr, and he was, not long ago, a dazzling, dominating legal mind, a theorist and scholar internationally revered for his brilliance and compassion. He inspired generations of students as a Harvard Law School professor, including the young Barack and Michelle Obama. He was a crusader for civil rights, the founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and a prolific author who investigated police conduct in black communities and the role of race in capital punishment, long before the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Alzheimer's is a wicked disease
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Have followed him for a couple decades. I know my mom would watch panel discussions that he was part of that CSPAN would broadcast.
I hit the Boston Globe paywall but here is what I think is the same article from an alternate site - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-his-alzheimers-looms-charles-and-pam-ogletree-take-one-last-walk-in-love/ar-AAJpLs7
Also found an earlier article here - https://abovethelaw.com/2019/04/missing-harvard-law-professor-found-by-police/ where apparently due to the Alzheimer's, he had wandered away from home this past April but was thankfully found...
