RIP Billy Jack

Tom Laughlin [[Billy Jack)August 10, 1931 – December 12, 2013While a student at the University of South Dakota, he met his future wife Delores Taylor. He wrote the original screenplay for the film Billy Jack in 1954 after witnessing the treatment of Native Americans in her hometown, Winner, South Dakota

Loved the Billy Jack movies. I read that he had been working on another one as recently as 5 years ago. There was a website that sold replicas of his hat