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William Sessions: Former prosecutor, judge and FBI director, dies at 90
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bill-Sessions-Former-prosecutor-judge-and-FBI-15336506.php
John MacCormack June 12, 2020 Updated: June 12, 2020 7:19 p.m.
As the U.S. attorney in San Antonio from 1971 to 1974, William Sessions actively oversaw the successful prosecution of political boss George Parr, the notoriously corrupt Duke of Duval County.
As the chief federal judge in San Antonio from 1980 to 1987, he presided over the trials of Charles Harrelson and others involved in the 1979 assassination of U.S. District Judge John Wood, who was gunned down in his Alamo Heights driveway. Sessions was a pallbearer at Woods’ funeral.
Appointed to a 10-year term to lead the FBI in 1987, he grappled with two front-page national tragedies: The flawed federal standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 51-day federal siege of the Branch Davidian complex east Waco that resulted in more than 80 deaths, many of them children.
And in 1993, he became the first FBI director to be removed from the post.
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John MacCormack June 12, 2020 Updated: June 12, 2020 7:19 p.m.
As the U.S. attorney in San Antonio from 1971 to 1974, William Sessions actively oversaw the successful prosecution of political boss George Parr, the notoriously corrupt Duke of Duval County.
As the chief federal judge in San Antonio from 1980 to 1987, he presided over the trials of Charles Harrelson and others involved in the 1979 assassination of U.S. District Judge John Wood, who was gunned down in his Alamo Heights driveway. Sessions was a pallbearer at Woods’ funeral.
Appointed to a 10-year term to lead the FBI in 1987, he grappled with two front-page national tragedies: The flawed federal standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 51-day federal siege of the Branch Davidian complex east Waco that resulted in more than 80 deaths, many of them children.
And in 1993, he became the first FBI director to be removed from the post.
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The story's missing its lede
Anyhow, that's too bad...
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