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On May 29, 1979, Judge Wood was killed in San
Antonio, by a shot from a high-powered rifle as he stood at the door of his automobile. He was struck in the small of the back (the middle of the lower back) and the bullet lodged near the upper part of his chest. Wood, known as "Maximum John" for his
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John H. Wood Middle School, in San
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outside Wood's home in San
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in the 20th century. Two other federal judges were assassinated in the 1980s,
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described his assassination as "an assault on our very system of justice."
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of the novel, which premiered two months after
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harsh sentencing of drug traffickers, was assassinated by
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