Willie Horton

Willie Horton. Self: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. A homicidal career criminal, Willie Horton briefly became, through improbable circumstances, a national villain and a symbol of everything that was wrong with the American criminal justice system. Also, in the eyes of many liberals, his moment of prominence was a symbol of what was wrong with American political campaigns. This began on October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when...