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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Into the hills: infantry training

12Dec63: Graduation

The perils of genealogy: when did William Pannill III die?

Record Day at the rifle range

Firing live at the rifle range

Week One at the rifle range

Uniforms and inspections propel us through boot camp

Read Lieutenant William Carter Cherry’s complete memoir

What’s a nice boy like you doing in a place like this?

One week as a recruit