Woody Harrelson's Judge Harrelson Connection

In Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, set in 1980, Sheriff Bell mentions dope dealers who shot and killed a federal judge in San Antonio. The film adaptation casts Woody Harrelson in a key role, and in real life his father, Charles Harrelson, was the contract killer convicted of murdering U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979.

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