Attorney Bill Farley, dead at 66, helped keep the peace at Yale

Maureen O'Donnell
Chicago Sun-Times

Even in the kaleidoscopic fashion era of 1970, William H. “Bill” Farley Jr. was easy to spot on the campus of Yale University.

In his poncho, shades and black cowboy hat, he carried himself with a resplendent, elegant swagger that conjured one of his favorite movie stars, Clint Eastwood.

He also was part of what might be “the most noble moment in the history of Mother Yale,” according to scholar Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., an old Yale classmate, who says, “Bill was one of my closest friends and one of my heroes.”

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