John Willie Woods Jr. head and shoulders smiling (courtesy of the Woods family). Submitted
On a spectacular spring morning, a large American flag, a much smaller one and faux flowers adorn John Willie Woods Juniorâs gravestone at Toussaint LâOuverture Cemetery in Franklin. More than half a century after his death in Vietnam, Mattie Lee Kinnard surely would be touched that her son is so well remembered.Â
Woods was only 19 when the helicopter he was aboard plunged into the jungle in a fiery explosion, killing him and three of his crewmates on Oct. 30, 1966. He was one of 342 American military deaths that month during the Vietnam War, one ofâ¯6,350 that year, one of 58,220 for the United States in the lengthy conflict.Â
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Ramsey Clark, Lawyer for Those âDemonizedâ by U.S., Dies at 93
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(Bloomberg) Ramsey Clark, whose unconventional legal career took him from top law enforcement officer in the U.S. to defender of such widely shunned figures as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terrorist attacks in the U.S., has died. He was 93.
(Bloomberg) Ramsey Clark, whose unconventional legal career took him from top law enforcement officer in the U.S. to defender of such widely shunned figures as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terrorist attacks in the U.S., has died. He was 93.
Ramsey Clark, former attorney general and rebel with a cause, dies at 93
By Douglas Martin New York Times,Updated April 10, 2021, 4:44 p.m.
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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark in 1974.JACK MANNING/NYT
Ramsey Clark, who championed civil rights and liberties as attorney general in the Johnson administration, then devoted much of the rest of his life to defending unpopular causes and infamous people, including Saddam Hussein and others accused of war crimes, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.
His niece Sharon Welch announced the death.
In becoming the nationâs top law enforcement official, Mr. Clark was part of an extraordinary father-and-son trade-off in the federal halls of power. His appointment prompted his father, Justice Tom C. Clark, to resign from the US Supreme Court to avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest involving cases in which the federal government might come before that bench.