Charles Voyde Harrelson was created on July 23, 1938 in Lovelady, Texas. During the course of the lifetime he had four sisters, and worked as an encyclopedia salesman and professional gambler.

Whether those were part-time cover tasks is unknown but according to his son, he was allegedly a CIA assassin.

In 1960 he had been convicted for armed robbery and a year later Woody was born. Eight years after, Charles Harrelson was arrested for the murder of Alan Berg but would later become aquitted by a jury of his peers.

David Berg, the brother of Alan Berg wrote a novel about his view of Alan's murder affected him and his family named Run, Brother Run.

The Brief Stretch of"Good Behaviour"

So today it is 1978 and he hadn't been arrested. Perhaps he was busy selling encyclopedias during this clean stretch.

The length of excellent behavior did not last long because in 1979 he found himself in the center of yet another murder offense. This time it had been to the killing of a federal judge. You aren't even supposed to raise your voice at a judge, let alone murder one for cover or otherwise.

U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. was notorious for providing heavy sentences for drug crimes and therefore had a terrible reputation among the criminal population which was conscious of this fact.

Hired To Kill A Federal Judge
Charles Harrelson was hired by a drug dealer named Jamiel Chagra to eliminate the judge in order to avoid serving a life sentence in prison.

Harrelson was arrested for the hit based off recorded communications involving Chagra along with his brother in a prison visit.

Charles got sentenced to 2 life sentences and one of his wives was convicted on charges of being an accomplice to the murder.

As you saw from the video of Woody Harrelson above, he did his best to have his dad's verdict overturned but was ultimately unable to achieve that.

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