William Pannill

Mr. Pannill, a native of Houston, retired as a lawyer in 2005. He graduated from Rice University in 1962 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1970. He joined a large law firm in Houston. Mr. Pannill practised law for 25 years in his own firm, Pannill, Moser & Barnes. His father, Fitzhugh Hastings Pannill, and grandfather, Judge William Pannill, practised law as well. He also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he worked nights as a copy boy for The New York Times. He was a member of the staff of The Detroit Free Press that won the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting for coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967.

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An 18th-century keepsake

A hundredth-birthday tribute

The watermelon salesman

Starvation rations at Fort Pulaski, Georgia

Under Confederate fire at Morris Island

50th anniversary of the state funeral of Winston Spencer Churchill

Victims of revenge

2014 in review

Uncle Hinkey

Restoration at Blandford Cemetery