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Old 04-29-2017, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Another member of a dying breed of Houstonians has passed. This guy was bigger than life and a fixture in Houston media in the 70's. Houston produced a class of legal personalities in the 20th century that made Houston the center of legal firms in Texas that it still is today !

Richard Racehorse Haynes 1927-2017

Richard Haynes, a flamboyant and highly successful Houston defense lawyer who argued some of the most notorious cases in modern Texas history, died on Friday at his home in Trinity, Tex. He was 90.
The death was confirmed by Christopher Tritico, a fellow lawyer and longtime friend.

Mr. Haynes, known as Racehorse — a nickname acquired when he was a high school football player — inherited the mantle of the legendary Texas lawyer Percy Foreman when he began compiling a spectacular record of acquittals in seemingly unwinnable cases, both small and large.

Between 1956, the year he began practicing law, and 1968 he defended 163 clients accused of drunken driving and won every case, establishing one of the longest winning streaks in legal history.
In the nearly 40 capital-punishment cases he handled, none of his clients were given the death penalty.

He made something of a specialty of “Smith & Wesson divorces,” as he called them: cases in which wives solved their marital problems by killing their husbands.

“I won all but two of those cases,” he told ABA Journal in 2009. “And I would have won them if my clients hadn’t kept reloading their gun and firing.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/u...wyer.html?_r=0
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Old 04-29-2017, 11:05 AM
 
Location: The Greater Houston Metro Area
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“And I would have won them if my clients hadn’t kept reloading their gun and firing.”

Bwahaha

I had all but forgotten him, since he has been out of the limelight so long.

My favorite bigger-than-life Houstonian is still Red Adair. Oh, and Dr. Michael DeBakey (adopted Houstonian).
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Old 04-29-2017, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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“And I would have won them if my clients hadn’t kept reloading their gun and firing.”

Bwahaha

I had all but forgotten him, since he has been out of the limelight so long.

My favorite bigger-than-life Houstonian is still Red Adair. Oh, and Dr. Michael DeBakey (adopted Houstonian).

"Bigger than life Houstonians" now that would be a list , Percy Forman, and Denton Cooley would be on that list too, don't ya think ?
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Old 04-29-2017, 12:57 PM
 
Location: The Greater Houston Metro Area
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"Bigger than life Houstonians" now that would be a list , Percy Forman, and Denton Cooley would be on that list too, don't ya think ?
Yep. Still - Red Adair. THAT is larger-than-life, when John Wayne plays you in a movie.

Also, to a much lesser degree - showbiz people: Patrick Swayze, Beyonce, Jaclyn Smith, the Quaid boys (not our fault that Randy went nuts).

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Old 04-30-2017, 04:44 PM
 
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Yep. Still - Red Adair. THAT is larger-than-life, when John Wayne plays you in a movie.

Also, to a much lesser degree - showbiz people: Patrick Swayze, Beyonce, Jaclyn Smith, the Quaid boys (not our fault that Randy went nuts).

For me Howard Hughes is my favorite Larger than life Houstonian, even as weird as he was. He's had numerous movies made about his life, and has been portrayed by everyone from Tommy Lee Jones, to Warren Beatty to Leonardo DiCaprio
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Old 04-30-2017, 06:09 PM
 
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Forgot about Howard. Do you know where he is buried in Houston?

Also, Lyle Lovett, Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, Jennifer Garner, Clint Black, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Renee Zellweger, Clyde Drexler, Jack Valenti, Kenny Rogers, Anna Nicole Smith, Shelly Duvall. Barbara Jordan, and Maaaaaaaaaaaaaarvin Zindler of Eye-Witness News.
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Old 04-30-2017, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Forgot about Howard. Do you know where he is buried in Houston?

Also, Lyle Lovett, Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, Jennifer Garner, Clint Black, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Renee Zellweger, Clyde Drexler, Jack Valenti, Kenny Rogers, Anna Nicole Smith, Shelly Duvall. Barbara Jordan, and Maaaaaaaaaaaaaarvin Zindler of Eye-Witness News.
Forget about Howard ! nahhh

He's buried at, or is it in, Glenwood Cemetery
Glenwood Cemetery | Burial Records

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Old 04-30-2017, 09:24 PM
 
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I'd add Glenn McCarthy to the list as well. Isn't James Dean's Jett Rink character in Giant is based on McCarthy?

It was a sad day when they tore down the Shamrock.

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Old 04-30-2017, 10:15 PM
 
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I'd add Glenn McCarthy to the list as well. Isn't James Dean's Jett Rink character in Giant is based on McCarthy?

It was a sad day when they tore down the Shamrock.

Glen McCarthy is a great choice, but I still go with HH.

I sooo agree with that. That swimming pool was the greatest pool I've ever been in or seen for that matter, and somewhere under the parking lot of Texas A&M University Park, the abandoned hull of that pool still exist...

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7053.../data=!3m1!1e3

BTW what are the Aggies doing in that place ? Is it a Medical School ? I'm asking you because I know that you know everything that's going on with anything Aggie ! lol
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Old 05-01-2017, 05:13 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Dr Red Duke
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