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Run Brother Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family
Run Brother Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family
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in 2008 i decided to tell a story
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uh about the death of my brother which
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i’d never discussed
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virtually with anyone some of my friends
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didn’t even know i had a brother
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others like members of my family
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didn’t want to talk about it to me
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because they knew it upset me
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he had been murdered in 1968 by
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uh charles harrelson who’s woody
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harrelson’s father
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who was a a hitman and uh
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later killed judge john wood and spent
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the rest of his life in jail he was the
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man who assassinated the federal judge
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in san antonio
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half of it’s devoted to our relationship
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half of it is devoted
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to the trial he was represented haralson
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was by
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percy foreman who
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i describe in the book and in my mind my
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belief was that
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he was also at one time the most famous
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criminal lawyer in the country
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and it was a long time ago but he always
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had alibi witnesses
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that he called his uh
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stand-in witnesses his standby witnesses
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in any event harrelson was acquitted and
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i tell that story and why i think it was
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the greatest injustice
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that i’ve seen in my years of practice
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it was published by scribner which of
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course was
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an english major’s dream and it was
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well reviewed it’s still available it’s
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called
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it’s called run brother run and it’s not
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entirely
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sad or harsh or
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explanatory of the trial it’s also funny
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and it’s also about a warm relationship
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that i shared with alan
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Houston, TX commercial litigation attorney David Berg talks about his book ‘Run Brother Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family?’ about the murder of his brother.
