Woody Harrelson's dad did what!?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I suppose my image of Woody Harrelson stems from his days on Cheers, rather than his more recent acting roles as madmen and serial killers. I suppose I had a sort of subconscious image of him as a farm boy, horsing around with cows, cowing around with horses, honourable and upstanding family, like the fictional representatives of American rurals I’ve seen on TV: Clark Kent, Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap, that sort of thing.

So, it’s a bit of a surprise that his dad murdered a federal judge. Because he’s a professional hit-man. Who killed people for money. And was paid to kill the judge by a drug-lord. And confessed to shooting John Franklin Kennedy. Retracted that last part, though, but definitely did the rest.

It’s just bizarre. It’s like finding out that Jim Morrison’s dad was the admiral in charge of US Naval forces at the Gulf of Tonkin during the eponymous incident…

He was? Huh. Okay, then.

Teenage rebellion, eh?

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Handsome, too.

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John Franklin Kennedy? :confused:

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Charles Harrelson left Woody and his mother when Woody was a small boy and his non-relationship with his father wasn’t anything like the Morrisons.

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Wasn’t that Charlie Brown’s friend?

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Somewhat ironical that the judge’s last name was Wood.

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I remember this. Growing up in San Antonio and learning how gov’t works in junior high. The teacher made a big deal out of this, and rightfully so. Judge Wood did a lot for the city.

There’s a courthouse named after him there now.

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Yeah, imagine that. Actors’ lives sometimes have no bearing or relationship to the characters they play.

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Holy Shit! That’s crazy. You can’t knock a guy for what his parents did, but…damn, that’s nuts!

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Actually it was Lee Harold Oswald who killed him.

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I heard that it was part of a larger conspiracy that involved Lyndon Bartholomew Johnson.

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[golf clap]

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Next you guys will be saying J. Edward Hoover was behind the Martin Leonard King assassination.

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No, that was James Alan Ray acting alone, just like Lee Hubert Oswald before him.

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Getting back on topic somewhat, a couple of other celebrity parent shockers.

Charlize Theron’s mother killed her father. It was during a fight and was ruled to be self-defense.

Lindsay Price’s parents were brother and sister. Adoptive brother and sister but still.

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This conspiracy goes all the way back to Frankln Delanor Roosevelt.

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No, it’s not. It’d be ironic if the judge somehow made assassination legal, and then was assassinated, or something.

But back to this conspiracy, I heard it extends all the way to George Humphrey Walker Bush.

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From the Texas Schoolbook Suppository.

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From wikipedia:

Charles Voyde Harrelson "was married to … Diane Lou Oswald "
and "worked as an encyclopedia salesman ".

There’s your connection to Lee Hubert Oswald and the Texas Schoolbook Suppository…:eek:

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Yeah, but Charles Harrelson claimed to be on the grassy Noel.