Opinion | Bill Beard Was a Good Man. Then He Committed a Terrible Crime.
My old pal Bill Beard was as complicated as America, as creative, as loving and sometimes as troubled. As I sat by Bill’s deathbed recently, we reminisced about searching in the woods as boys for Bigfoot. (It’s just as well, we decided, that we never caught one.) We spoke of long-ago crushes, of his prison […]